I really love to drive. It's really hard for me to be a passenger, even though I get to look around a little bit more, but I've gotten really good at driving and looking. — Catherine Opie Copy Share Image
I really love to drive. It's really hard for me to be a passenger, even though I get to look around a little bit… — Catherine Opie Copy Share
...things become mainstream when they become imaged over and over again. Something happens in relationship to ideas of representation that makes it more palatable… — Catherine Opie Copy Share
I do photograph things for people to look at 100 years from now. But we're such a mediated society that things become historical the… — Catherine Opie Copy Share
I tried to get as far away from home as possible after I graduated from high school because I had a hard time being… — Catherine Opie Copy Share
I like that time is marked by each sunrise and sunset whether or not you actually see it. — Catherine Opie Copy Share
The reason I call myself a documentary photographer is the idea of how photographs contain and participate in history. — Catherine Opie Copy Share
My dad was a very conservative Republican businessman, so obviously I considered it a problem when I realized I was a lesbian. — Catherine Opie Copy Share
There's a lesbian aesthetic, just as there's gay camp, but I don't know if there's such a thing as 'lesbian art.' — Catherine Opie Copy Share
I'm very empathic to the construction of masculinity within our culture and how we build these identities up. — Catherine Opie Copy Share
Light is everything in photographs and has to be considered in all situations. — Catherine Opie Copy Share
I want to seduce my viewers and be able to hold them with the work. Much of that is done in terms of formalist… — Catherine Opie Copy Share
I always give a print to everybody I photograph, and some of my subjects have told me they have a hard time hanging them… — Catherine Opie Copy Share
When we were kids, growing up in the sixties, the only images we had of ourselves were either still photographs or 8mm movies… Now… — Catherine Opie Copy Share
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… — Catherine Opie Copy Share
