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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
Photographer
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Washington
District of Columbia
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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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I love all the Hollywood women. I saw all the films when I was a teenager. Jack Smith's Flaming Creatures.
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No Jews have our own guilt, that's why we have psychiatrists - the Jewish version of a priest.
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I always thought if I photographed anyone or anything enough, I would never lose the person, I would never lose the memory, I would never lose the place. But the pictures show me how much I've lost.
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My life is more important. At this point in my life I'm alone. I don't think about it a lot.
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Stella McCartney is [my] big fan.
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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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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 thing that drives me most crazy in the world is not to be believed.
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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 have the freedom of seeing it [churches and paintings of saints] with a non-Catholic eye without the guilt.
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I don't even like photography at all. I'm just doing photography until I can do something better.
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I like it [Rotterdam] much better than Amsterdam which is too much like a postcard. It's too cute for me. Rotterdam is more real, it's got a stomach.
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I also photographed Maggie Cheung - but these didn't develop into a friendship either.
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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 did [heroin] maybe when I was 18 but I got over that pretty quickly.
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