He photographed three thousand images of her possessions and her private spaces. Her vanity table set with lucite containers of carefully organized shadow in her sitting room, her blue velvet sofas which i assume were supposed to be kind of like mimicking her eyes. Ah, it was a reprieve from a lot of chaos in my life that i could slowly unravel through a six month period. They make a portrait within you know, forty minutes of somebody visiting the studio? I really loved her cat, fang fang and i became really good friends.
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.