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