...things become mainstream when they become imaged over and over again. Something happens in relationship to ideas of representation that makes it more palatable or digestible. — 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 Image
...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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
I like that time is marked by each sunrise and sunset whether or not you actually see it. — Catherine Opie Copy Share Image
The reason I call myself a documentary photographer is the idea of how photographs contain and participate in history. — Catherine Opie Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
I'm very empathic to the construction of masculinity within our culture and how we build these identities up. — Catherine Opie Copy Share Image
Light is everything in photographs and has to be considered in all situations. — Catherine Opie Copy Share Image
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 Image
