Elizabeth taylor was a generous person in my mind, and the generosity that she and her team displayed to me was obvious. She was also really independent and savy, an understanding of a woman of her generation. And she was an activist at a period of time that we really needed, yes. Within all the softness and the lushness there was utter power and a position of humanity that i just have an enormous amount of respect for.
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.