Tracey Emin gets even more personal - in pictures

The original cover of Emin's mum's photo album from the 1970s. Emin says: 'Oddly enough the idyllic image never set the tone for my life'
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As a toddler
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Aged 10 on a trip to Brighton with her Dad and brother Paul
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Pages from Emin's mum's original photo album, with cutouts of holidays in Turkey, boat trips, strolls in fields – and tiny chairs
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Aged 17, with beret
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Emin's Maidstone College of Art NUS card – and the photo booth shots that marked the passing of time for her more than anything else
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More photo booth shots of Emin, aged 16 and bequiffed to 19 and very rock'n'roll
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Her passport from 1982 Photograph: Tracey Emin

Modelling clothes she'd made out of curtains in a local cafe, 1982 Photograph: Eugene Doyen

Emin and Sarah Lucas outside The Shop, their art space that was open in 1993 on Bethnal Green Road in London Photograph: Carl Freedman

Emin aged 19 in a photoshoot done by a friend: 'What we would do in our spare time when we were students' Photograph: Eugene Doyen

Emin in her studio in Elephant and Castle while pregnant Photograph: David Dawson

Emin at the opening of her South London gallery show I Need Art Like I Need God in 1997 – 'when I knew I could make it as an artist'
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David Bowie snaps Emin in 1997: 'I spent a weekend in Dublin with David Bowie and Iman – much to our amusement we had a small interloper in the photo shoot'
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Emin and Bowie in Dublin
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Emin drawing Kate Moss in 1999
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Emin in 2004: 'I smashed my leg up in Rome – I still can't walk properly – it's a big regret'
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