Photographer Catherine Opie on creating living history and leading UCLA’s art department Written by Danielle Chiriguayo, produced by Sarah Sweeney
Jul. 20, 2021Arts MORE Untitled #1 (Black Lives Matter March), 2020. Pigment print, 16 × 24 in. (40.6 × 61 cm). Courtesy of Catherine Opie and Regen Projects, Los Angeles.
Catherine Opie peels back many layers of American society with her photographs of places freeway overpasses, rundown mini-malls, and empty cityscapes and of people like high school football players, California surfers, and those in the Lesbian leather scene.
Her friends call her the mayor of LA because she’s photographed so much of the area over the decades. And she’s taught photography at UCLA for the last 20 years. Now UCLA has named Opie the new chair of its Art Department.
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