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 qt matching model homes, plots of land and billboards advertising united states where the children are apple cheeked and tow headed. In the meantime, you began to contribute photographs to lesbian magazines. You mentioned on our backs, whose name was a response to the anti pornography feminist journal off our back. How did you first discover the magazine? By living in san francisco, you know, you're basically imbedded.
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.