Catherine Opie
Catherine Opie
Catherine Opieis an American fine-art photographer. She studies the relationships between mainstream and infrequent society, with a large emphasis on sexual identity, specializing in portraiture, studio, and landscape photography. Through photography Opie documents the connections between the individual and the space inhabited. She lives and works in West Adams, Los Angeles. She is well known for her work of portraits exploring the Los Angeles leather-dyke community. Opie is currently a professor of photography at University of California at Los Angeles...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionArtist
CountryUnited States of America
I tried to get as far away from home as possible after I graduated from high school because I had a hard time being a kid.
I'm very empathic to the construction of masculinity within our culture and how we build these identities up.
Nature is a dream state at this point, that we almost don't have a real relationship to it unless it's people living off the land and killing our own food and going for it.
My dad was a very conservative Republican businessman, so obviously I considered it a problem when I realized I was a lesbian.
The reason I call myself a documentary photographer is the idea of how photographs contain and participate in history.
The biggest cliche in Photography is Sunrise and Sunset.
I like that time is marked by each sunrise and sunset whether or not you actually see it.