American Photographer

Catherine Opie
9780892073757 / 892073756
American Photographer

American Photographer

Catherine Opie
9780892073757 / 892073756
Publisher Guggenheim Museum Publications
Edition Hardcover , 288 Pages
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Publisher's description

This comprehensive new exhibition catalogue, published to accompany the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum’s major mid-career survey of Catherine Opie’s work, is the first to gather all of the artist’s key projects to date in a single volume. Opie is best known for her subtle but potent portraits of people from the queer communities of Los Angeles and San Francisco. In this definitive volume, each of Opie’s series–among them Portraits, Freeways, Domestic, Icehouses and In and Around Home–is reproduced in full color plates alongside works that were not displayed in the exhibition, allowing for the most complete overview of this important Los Angeles artist’s work to date. In addition, this volume features a lead essay by exhibition curator Jennifer Blessing, which surveys Opie’s artistic career and its historical contexts; a series of interviews with the artist by Russell Ferguson, Chair of the Department of Art at UCLA; and a brief personal reflection by internationally renowned novelist Dorothy Allison, whose work explores many concerns similar to Opie’s. It also includes introductory essays on each of the artist’s series by Nat Trotman, Assistant Curator at the Guggenheim, as well as a newly researched, exhaustive exhibition history and bibliography, making it the primary source for future research on Opie’s work. Catherine Opie was born in Ohio in 1961 and is currently Professor of Photography at UCLA. Opie’s work has been exhibited extensively throughout the United States, Europe and Japan. She has had solo exhibitions of her work at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; St. Louis Art Museum; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, among many others.

Specifications

Book title American Photographer
Photographer Catherine Opie
ISBN 10 892073756 / 0-89207-375-6       
ISBN 13 9780892073757 / 978-0-89207-375-7
Publisher Guggenheim Museum Publications
Publish date Oct 2008
Book format Hardcover
Pages 288 Pages
Dimensions 31 x 26 cm / 12.25 x 10.25 inches

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