I've become really interested in the landscape but not as landscape but more as it relates to mood … - Nan Goldin

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I think this group of people came together in a way that they haven't before in 2007. I'm very optimistic we can do something. . . I want to get there, I want to support this.

Nan Goldin

I've become really interested in the landscape but not as landscape but more as it relates to mood and how we live and how the outside impacts on the inside. I didn't really look at the outside world during the years I was photographing the Ballad as I was locked inside my house and I lived totally inside.

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I used to think that I could never lose anyone if I photographed them enough. In fact, my pictures show me how much I’ve lost.

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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.

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A lot of people seem to think that art or photography is about the way things look, or the surface of things. That's not what it's about for me. It's really about relationships and feelings. . . it's really hard for me to do commercial work because people kind of want me to do a Nan Goldin. They don't understand that it's not about a style or a look or a setup. It's about emotional obsession and empathy.

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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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Yes, photography saved my life. Every time I go through something scary, traumatic, I survive by taking pictures.

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