Catherine Opie Quotes

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

  Catherine Opie

  Sunset, Sunrise, Sunrise And Sunset

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• The biggest cliche in Photography is Sunrise and Sunset.

  Catherine Opie

  Photography, Sunset, Sunrise

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• Language is a very complicated thing, and that's one of the reasons why I like making photographs.

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  Reason Why, Language, Complicated

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• I'm very empathic to the construction of masculinity within our culture and how we build these identities up.

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  Identity, Culture, Construction

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

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  Ideas, Documentaries, Photographer

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• ...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.

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  Ideas, Mainstream, Representation

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• I'm kind of a twisted social documentary photographer.

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  Documentaries, Photographer, Kind

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• My dad was a very conservative Republican businessman, so obviously I considered it a problem when I realized I was a lesbian.

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  Dad, Conservative, Problem

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• Light is everything in photographs and has to be considered in all situations.

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  Light, Photograph, Situation

  "Viewer Q&A: Responses from Catherine Opie, El Anatsui, and Marina Abramović". Interview with Jonathan Munar, magazine.art21.org. Jun 7, 2012.

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• When we were kids, growing up in the sixties, the only images we had of ourselves were either still photographs or 8mm movies.... Now we have video, digital cameras, MP3s, and a million other ways to document ourselves. But the still photograph continues to hold a sense of mystery and awe to me.

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  Growing Up, Kids, Mp3

  "The Drive to Describe: An Interview with Catherine Opie". Interview with Maura Reilly, www.americansuburbx.com. 2001.

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• 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.

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  Home, School, Kids

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• I do photograph things for people to look at 100 years from now. But we're such a mediated society that things become historical the next day.

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  Years, Next Day, People

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• 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.

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  Looks, Littles, Driving

  "Catherine Opie: Bearing Witness and the Sublime". Interview with Tracey Harnish, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 5, 2013.

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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.

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  Dream, Real, Land

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• 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.'

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  Art, Gay, Aesthetic

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• 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.

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  Home, Hard Times, Giving

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

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  Kind, Supporter

  "Catherine Opie: Bearing Witness and the Sublime". Interview with Tracey Harnish, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 03, 2013.

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