The title came from the woman with her arms crossed over her chest, peaing in on our backs. So she is an amazing philosopher from toronto, canada, by the name of anna mari smith. She was a one of the head kind of political philosophers and teachers at cornell. And then it started a very long friendship and love affair with anne marie smith. That's the beautiful thing about community rit as you meet people and you're going through so much as a community,. especially in relationship to politics and aids and invisibility.
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.