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Quote by Catherine Opie

“I'm kind of a twisted social documentary photographer.”

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Catherine Opie is an American artist known for her profound depictions of the Los Angeles urban landscape and the LGBTQ+ community. Her work spans photography, video, and installation art, addressing social and cultural issues. more

“When we were kids, growing up in the sixties, the only images we had of ourselves were either still photographs or 8mm movies.... Now we have video, digital cameras, MP3s, and a million other ways to document ourselves. But the still photograph continues to hold a sense of mystery and awe to me.”

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Author:Catherine Opie

“Language is a very complicated thing, and that's one of the reasons why I like making photographs.”

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Author:Catherine Opie

“I do photograph things for people to look at 100 years from now. But we're such a mediated society that things become historical the next day.”

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“...things become mainstream when they become imaged over and over again. Something happens in relationship to ideas of representation that makes it more palatable or digestible.”

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“You can't understand how strange it was to be a sculptor who exhibited photographs. (On exhibitions of his earthworks and land art pieces.)”

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Author:Dennis Oppenheim

“[The photographs] were there simply to indicate a radical art that had already vanished. The photograph was necessary only as a residue for communication.”

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Author:Dennis Oppenheim

“The photograph gives constant reference to the rectangle. This forces any idea into the confines of pictorial illusionism.”

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Author:Dennis Oppenheim

“To be a photojournalist takes experience, skill, endurance, energy, salesmanship, organization, wheedling, climbing, gatecrashing, etc. - plus an eye and patience.”

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Author:Ruth Orkin

“Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us!”

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Author:Richard Bach

“My mother said that when I was young I was constantly saying, Look at this - Look at that. I think that taking pictures must be my way of asking people to Look at this - Look at that. If my photographs make the viewer feel what I did when I first took them - Isn't this funny... terrible... moving... beautiful? - then I've accomplished my purpose.”

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Book:A Photo Journal

Source: A Photo Journal

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