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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. "
Catherine Opie
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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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Own
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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. "
Catherine Opie
Time
Hard
Hanging
" 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
Know
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" I'm very interested in the language of photography in relationship to painting. "
Catherine Opie
Very
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" 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
Life
You
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" I like that time is marked by each sunrise and sunset whether or not you actually see it. "
Catherine Opie
You
Time
Sunset
" 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
Drive
Driving
Good
" 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. "
Catherine Opie
I Am
Flag
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" Light is everything in photographs and has to be considered in all situations. "
Catherine Opie
Light
Everything
Situations
" The biggest cliche in photography is sunrise and sunset. "
Catherine Opie
Photography
Sunrise
Sunset
" I'm a complete supporter of Obama and kind of in love with him. "
Catherine Opie
Complete
Love
Supporter
" 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. "
Catherine Opie
Hold
Ideas
Want
" I'm very empathic to the construction of masculinity within our culture and how we build these identities up. "
Catherine Opie
Culture
Construction
Build
" The reason I call myself a documentary photographer is the idea of how photographs contain and participate in history. "
Catherine Opie
Photographer
Myself
History