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When I put my big retrospective together in '96 [for the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York], I saw that there were all these pictures of people inside looking out. All these pictures of women in water and mirrors. I don't know what it means.

Nan Goldin

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Nan Goldin
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: September 12
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