Catherine Opie (born 1961) has forged new idioms in both portrait and landscape photography, frequently combining the two genres to explore how people occupy different landscapes--from high school football players...
For almost 40 years, Catherine Opie has been documenting with psychological acuity the cultural and geographic identity of contemporary America.
Through images and words, in this volume Catherine Opie shares her creative process and discusses a wide range of issues, from representing subcultures and marginalized communities, to making confrontational work that reimagines and ...
Catherine Opie
Since the late 1980s, Catherine Opie's interest in the motif of the visual road trip has resulted in photographs that sumultaneously document and question the self-constructed identities of the people...
In this monograph, Catherine Opie juxtaposes a new series of intimate and political photographs, In and Around Home, with images from her pre-millennial road trip, 1999.
Catherine Opie: The Photographers' Gallery, London
Catalog of an exhibition held at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Sept. 26, 2008-Jan. 7, 2009.
Catherine Opie's photographs include portraits and American urban landscapes, ranging from large-scale colour works to small black-and-white prints. A conceptual framework of cultural portraitism links her various photographic series.