Catherine Opie

Catherine Opie (1961 - present) is an artist specializing in the photography of transgendered people. Most recently she has turned to photographing architectural spaces (skyways and urban spaces) as well as landscapes (icehouses and surfers in the ocean). She is currently a professor of Photography at UCLA. Her works are displayed in museums in Los Angeles, Chicago, and London. A book of her photography is entitled Skyways and Icehouses (ISBN 093564072X).

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1961 - Artist - Photography - Transgender - Los Angeles - Chicago - London

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Features of her ouevre include auto-mutilated self-portraits, portraits of performance artist Ron Athey, and portraits of GLBTQ couples reminiscent of Renaissance Flemish painting. To execute some of these portraits she utilized a polaroid camera as large as a room, producing one-of-a-kind polaroids that measure from 10 to 12 feet. She has recently moved away from photographing portraits and turned to cityscapes, oceanscapes, and rural or remote landscapes.

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Opie was born in Sandusky, Ohio, and currently lives in Los Angeles and New York.

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Sandusky, Ohio - Los Angeles - New York

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