My desire is to preserve the sense of people’s lives, to endow them with the strength and beauty I see in them. I want the people in my pictures to stare back.
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 pl… - Nan Goldin
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 pl…
- Nan Goldin
If I want to take a picture, I take it no matter what. - Nan Goldin
If I want to take a picture, I take it no matter what.
For me it is not a detachment to take a picture. It's a way of touching somebody - it's a caress… I think that you can actually give people access to… - Nan Goldin
For me it is not a detachment to take a picture. It's a way of touching somebody - it's a caress… I think that you can actually give people access to…
The camera is as much a part of my everyday life as talking or eating or sex. - Nan Goldin
The camera is as much a part of my everyday life as talking or eating or sex.
I knew from a very early age, that what I saw on tv had nothing to do with real life. So I wanted to make a record of real life. That included having… - Nan Goldin
I knew from a very early age, that what I saw on tv had nothing to do with real life. So I wanted to make a record of real life. That included having…
My work is mostly about memory. It is very important to me that everybody that I have been close to in my life I make photographs of them. - Nan Goldin
My work is mostly about memory. It is very important to me that everybody that I have been close to in my life I make photographs of them.
Yes, photography saved my life. Every time I go through something scary, traumatic, I survive by taking pictures. - Nan Goldin
Yes, photography saved my life. Every time I go through something scary, traumatic, I survive by taking pictures.
I'm very influenced by a lot of things, but my chief influence is my friends and what I see and what I feel and my own experiences and memory. - Nan Goldin
I'm very influenced by a lot of things, but my chief influence is my friends and what I see and what I feel and my own experiences and memory.
I think the wrong things are kept private - Nan Goldin
I think the wrong things are kept private
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