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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 land and killing our own food and going for it.
Catherine Opie
The biggest cliche in photography is sunrise and sunset.
Catherine Opie
I'm very empathic to the construction of masculinity within our culture and how we build these identities up.
Catherine Opie
The reason I call myself a documentary photographer is the idea of how photographs contain and participate in history.
Catherine Opie
My dad was a very conservative Republican businessman, so obviously I considered it a problem when I realized I was a lesbian.
Catherine Opie
Light is everything in photographs and has to be considered in all situations.
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.
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.
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.
Catherine Opie
One of the greatest things about being an artist is, as you get older, if you keep working hard in relationship to what you want the world to be and how you want it to become, there is a history of interesting growth that resonates with different moments in your life.
Catherine Opie
I'm very interested in the language of photography in relationship to painting.
Catherine Opie
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
