Author: Catherine Opie

Quotes

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

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

- Catherine Opie

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

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

- Catherine Opie

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.

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.

- Catherine Opie

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

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

- Catherine Opie

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.

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

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

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

- Catherine Opie

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 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.

- Catherine Opie

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

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

- Catherine Opie

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

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

- Catherine Opie

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