Nan Goldin
[Photographer, b. 1953, Washington, D.C., lives in New York and Paris.]
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 their own soul.
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When you set up pictures you’re not at any risk. Reality involves chance and risk and diving for pearls.
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I used to think I couldn’t lose anyone if I photographed them enough.
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If I want to take a picture, I take it no matter what.
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Where is the line between life and photographing life?
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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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Every time I go through something scary, traumatic, I survive by taking pictures.
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I am not a voyeur, as voyeurs photograph through closed windows and with me the window is always wide open.
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