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Photography Quotes by Catherine Opie

9 Photography quotes by Catherine Opie

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Catherine Opie's take on photography feels like a quiet conversation with the viewer, each line revealing how she frames identity and place. With just nine selections, this page offers a focused taste of her thoughtful lens, perfect for anyone curious about her nuanced perspective.

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Light is everything in photographs and has to be considered in all situations.

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Language is a very complicated thing, and that's one of the reasons why I like making photographs.

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I'm kind of a twisted social documentary photographer.

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The biggest cliche in Photography is Sunrise and Sunset.

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I'm very interested in the language of photography in relationship to painting.

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I always give a print to everybody I photograph, and some of my subjects have told me they have a hard time…

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The reason I call myself a documentary photographer is the idea of how photographs contain and participate in history.

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I do photograph things for people to look at 100 years from now. But we're such a mediated society that things become…

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When we were kids, growing up in the sixties, the only images we had of ourselves were either still photographs or 8mm…

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I tried to get as far away from home as possible after I graduated from high school because I had a hard time being…

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I like that time is marked by each sunrise and sunset whether or not you actually see it.

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The reason I call myself a documentary photographer is the idea of how photographs contain and participate in history.

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My dad was a very conservative Republican businessman, so obviously I considered it a problem when I realized I was a lesbian.

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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.'

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I'm a complete supporter of Obama and kind of in love with him.

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I'm very empathic to the construction of masculinity within our culture and how we build these identities up.

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I want to seduce my viewers and be able to hold them with the work. Much of that is done in terms of formalist…

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I always give a print to everybody I photograph, and some of my subjects have told me they have a hard time hanging them…

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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…

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