The image was first shown to the public in 19 95 at the whitney biennial. You've said that since then, you struggled to look at that photo. Ei, it's not necessarily a struggleit's, i haven't said a struggle. But one of the things that i love about photography, it defines the sense of time. So the frozenness of my time and my community,. i'm so profoundly honored that my friends and i, myself, chose to use ourselves, in relationship to community, to make and work on a body of work"
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.