‘I was watching all my friends die’: a queer history told in pictures
When Catherine Opie was nine years old she was given a Kodak Instamatic camera. Its impact on her life was transformative. From the suburbs of Sandusky, Ohio, it reframed her view of the world, and when she moved to California as a teenager in 1975, her photography fused with the brutalist architecture of America’s second-biggest urban metropolis.
When photographer Catherine Opie was documenting the AIDS crisis in California, she had little sense of how important her images would become.
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