The photographer was commissioned by the actress elizabeth taylor to photograph her home in bellair, los angeles. "I never met her, but i feel like, in a weird way, i was granted kind of the last portrait of elElizabeth taylor," she said. The house was immediately dismantled and sold upon her passing.
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.