Art books turning over a new leaf

February 17, 2021

Catherine Opie is a professor of Photography in the UCLA Department of Art. Her work has been exhibited extensively throughout the United States, Europe, and Japan. In 2019, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Photography. Opie's new book offers insight into the thoughts behind the lens through essays and never-before-published works. 

Catherine Opie, Self-Portrait/Nursing, 2004. Courtesy the artist and Regen Projects, Los Angeles.

"Catherine Opie

For nearly four decades, American fine art photographer Catherine Opie has captured the mainstream, the marginalised and the nuances of everyday life in contemporary America. Opie’s first survey monograph, published by Phaidon, charts the artist’s career since the early 1980s, paired with images across her expansive and varied bodies of work. From LGBT communities to Los Angeles freeways and ice-fishing villages in Minnesota, the book offers a full view of Opie’s politically charged, often-autobiographical cultural visions. Through compelling essays and never-before-published works, this hotly-anticipated tome offers a window into the iconic, subversive and poignant world of a true maverick in visual storytelling."— Harriet Lloyd-Smith, Feb. 17, 2021

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