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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. "
Catherine Opie
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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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" 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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" I'm very interested in the language of photography in relationship to painting. "
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" I go back and forth, but I never wanted to be the photographer of the gay and lesbian community. I will wave a rainbow flag proudly, but I am not a singular identity. I think a singular identity isn't very interesting, and I'm a little bit more multifaceted as a person than that. "
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" I like that time is marked by each sunrise and sunset whether or not you actually see it. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" I'm very empathic to the construction of masculinity within our culture and how we build these identities up. "
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" Light is everything in photographs and has to be considered in all situations. "
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" The biggest cliche in photography is sunrise and sunset. "
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" I want to seduce my viewers and be able to hold them with the work. Much of that is done in terms of formalist ideas that I bring to the work. "
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" I'm a complete supporter of Obama and kind of in love with him. "
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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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