In fourth grade, you wrote a book report on the photography of louis hinan. Growing up with all this political memorabilia around me, that history is made within an age culture. And so i had that awareness, apparently, and asked for a camera on my ninth birthday to be a documentary photographer. So it seems now that it's hard to believe that that was really like what i was going to decide to be.
At 8 years old, Catherine Opie realized “that history is made within an image culture”—and here, she discusses her incredible life as a photographer driven by culture.