Alex Rhodes
Photography
November 15, 2015
Catherine Opie was born in Sandusky, Ohio in 1961. She
was so interested in photographer Lewis Hines she had asked for a camera for
her ninth birthday. She had gotten a Kodak Instamatic on her birthday. Right
away she had started taking photographs of her family and neighborhood. In 1985
she had gotten a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. She had also
received an MFA from California Institute of the Arts in 1988.
She had then gotten into doing portraits of lesbians and
gay community in Los Angeles. She had also taken photographs of the Los Angeles
roads and landscapes. She then went back to the lesbian community for her
subjects. Catherine had wanted to take more photographs of different
landscapes. She decided to take photographs of the New York financial district
also she had taken photographs of Minnesota in Icehouses and Skyways.
Catherine Opie has had solo shows in the Museum of
Contemporary Art in Los Angeles in 1997. Also she had one in Saint Louis Art
Museum in 2000, The Photographers’ Gallery in London in 2000, Walker Art Center
in Minneapolis in 2002, and many more. Catherine had taught at the Yale
University also at the University of California. As of today Catherine lives
and works at Los Angeles.
She is still creating her work and is most famous for the
photographs she has been taking of the lesbian women she makes look like men.
She wants to make everyone think about what they see from what they really are.
Everyone knows Catherine for her series Chicken.
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