A pigpen is one of the two most photographed people in your body of work, yesa. Pig pen is just one of the people that ihave just really, really loved in my life as a friend. We have gone through so much with pig pen. I might really enjoy looking at them, but by no means are they muses. Their friends that i i honor in relationship to, kind of making id have a harder time with this notion of muse.
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.