Nan Goldin Quotes
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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 wasn't there [in U.S] when the city was bombed but it seems to have changed my friends.
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Plastic surgery is distressingly popular and I feel that the fashion industry has killed tens of thousands of women over the years from anorexia.
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Each time I spend with Stella McCartney, I like her better. So I was excited to be asked by her.
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I feel like if I started to use it [camera] that way, it would be like a sin almost. I never show people ugly pictures I take of them. I usually destroy them. So even if I like it, and they don't, it doesn't get shown.
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One of the things I love so much about Valerie [Belin] is that she inhabits her body so completely. She has no self-consciousness about having stretch marks or having given birth. It's just so amazing that she has nothing to hide. Whereas all these other women see every little - supposed - imperfection - anything irregular is seen as an imperfection.
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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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I just get inspired to take a picture by the beauty and vulnerability of my friends.
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My life there[in New York] was almost entirely about gay men for 30 years.
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If I want to take a picture, I take it no matter what.
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I remember so many girls when I was growing up who hated the way they looked.
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I also met Dominique Sanda, who I always worshipped.
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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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The only time I went out was to go to bars at night and all the pictures were taken with a flash because there was no light at all. However now I'm very interested in light.
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It's a hideous feeling to go round shopping and even feel like you are a freak.
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In America, more than half the population are overweight. It's not healthy and I'm not proud of that but I don't hate having a woman's body.
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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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No Jews have our own guilt, that's why we have psychiatrists - the Jewish version of a priest.
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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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My work is received more intelligently in Europe.
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I never courted that but it's nice when it's people you respect and they respect your work. It's thrilling.
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Yes, photography saved my life. Every time I go through something scary, traumatic, I survive by taking pictures.
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I like Stella [McCartney] a lot - she's a very open and warm person. I don't particularly want to know about her background.
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Some people have become [in U.S] a lot more conservative but I can't really speak about that because I wasn't there. I feel compassion for their pain but it distresses me to see them all become more patriotic.