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Usually people just do their own work. But I want to deal with the place and what it means to show in a mental hospital.
Nan Goldin
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Nan Goldin
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: September 12
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The things that I look at include Renaissance art. I'm obsessed with churches and paintings of saints.
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If I say something honestly, generally, I am being completely honest and don't tell me I am lying. It drives me crazy to be told I set up my pictures. How does it benefit me to lie? I guess they are afraid to believe it and are afraid to look at it.
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The complete disregard for the camera's presence indicates its complete saturation in their lives. The subject neither notices nor seems to care that someone has been invited into their private moment.
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I never read theory. I think that was to my benefit.
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I know somewhat about Kate [Moss who featured in the Vogue spread]. I always thought that Kate's look had come from my old friend Siobhan Liddell and some of her friends because they dressed like that about ten years ago. Unconsciously, and right after that, that whole look sort of came out.
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I have no ambivalence about myself wearing make-up or designer clothes but I have an enormous ambivalence about what the fashion world has done to women.
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American magazines are becoming very patriotic beyond belief to the point that I can't live there any more.
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It's so rare to see a woman's sexuality, real female sexuality, either in the shows or in the clothes.
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I've got really prolific since I moved to Paris where I am living permanently, for the rest of my life, until I find another idea. I have really close women friends here: Valerie, Raymonde, not Joana so much, Maria Schneider, who was always a real heroine of mine who and has now become a close friend.
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Of course I was wearing make-up, I never went anywhere without red lipstick for 25 years! It was a form of self-preservation for me to continue to wear lipstick even though my face was broken.
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In Paris now, when I walk into stores and the shopgirls literally say to me every time, We don't have anything in your size.
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I start to paint my walls. And I'm heavily influenced by films.
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I shot for French and British Vogue. The British Vogue one featured clothes by Chloe and was shot at Highgate and the John Soane Museum. It came out much better in my opinion. I only did one day and was working with my own make-up and hair people and a model who I've known for years.
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I had said that when the first Bush got elected that I would leave the country. And when the second Bush wasn't even elected properly.
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