As a way to cope, you started photographing a planned community that was being built across the road from your apartment. And this work included photographs of qote matching model homes, plots of land and bill boards advertising a united states. The children are apple cheeked and tow headed, and the parents are as straight as ken and barbywhat? What provoked this particular direction of your work? Well, at first i didn't have a car, because i was moving from san francisco and my car had been totled. And i just decided to walk with my camera.
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.