Biography
Catherine Sue Opie (born 1961) is an American fine-art photographer. She lives and works in West Adams, Los Angeles, as a tenured professor of photography at University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA).
Opie studies the connections between mainstream and infrequent society. By specializing in portraiture, studio and landscape photography, she is able to create pieces relating to sexual identity. Through photography, Opie, documents the relationship between the individual and the space inhabited.
She is known for her portraits exploring the Los Angeles leather-dyke community.
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Read full Wikipedia entryArtworks
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Catherine Opie Flipper, Tanya, Chloe, & Harriet, San Francisco, California
1995 -
Catherine Opie Untitled #11
2001 -
Catherine Opie Melissa & Lake, Durham, North Carolina
1998 -
Catherine Opie Miggi & Ilene, Los Angeles, California
1995 -
Catherine Opie Untitled #19
2001 -
Catherine Opie Untitled #2
2001 -
Catherine Opie 700 Nimes Road
2010–11, printed 2014 -
Catherine Opie Untitled #5
2001
Film and audio
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Catherine Opie: Photography, painting and portraiture
Opie visits Tate Britain to discuss the influence of painting on her photography
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