Catherine Opie: American Photographer
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 770
EAN: 9780892073757
ISBN: 0892073756
Label: Guggenheim Museum
Manufacturer: Guggenheim Museum
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 304
Publication Date: October 01, 2008
Publisher: Guggenheim Museum
Release Date: October 01, 2008
Studio: Guggenheim Museum
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This comprehensive new exhibition catalogue, published to accompany the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum's major mid-career survey of Catherine Opie's work, is the first to gather all of the artist's key projects to date in a single volume. Opie is best known for her subtle but potent portraits of people from the queer communities of Los Angeles and San Francisco. In this definitive volume, each of Opie's series--among them Portraits, Freeways, Domestic, Icehouses and In and Around Home--is reproduced in full color plates alongside works that were not displayed in the exhibition, allowing for the most complete overview of this important Los Angeles artist's work to date. In addition, this volume features a lead essay by exhibition curator Jennifer Blessing, which surveys Opie's artistic career and its historical contexts; a series of interviews with the artist by Russell Ferguson, Chair of the Department of Art at UCLA; and a brief personal reflection by internationally renowned novelist Dorothy Allison, whose work explores many concerns similar to Opie's. It also includes introductory essays on each of the artist's series by Nat Trotman, Assistant Curator at the Guggenheim, as well as a newly researched, exhaustive exhibition history and bibliography, making it the primary source for future research on Opie's work.
Catherine Opie was born in Ohio in 1961 and is currently Professor of Photography at UCLA. Opie's work has been exhibited extensively throughout the United States, Europe and Japan. She has had solo exhibitions of her work at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; St. Louis Art Museum; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, among many others.
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Rating: - Cahterine Opie:American Photographer
The book is absolutely wonderful and I wish I could go to NY to see the show. The book contains photos, however, that are not in the show and so that makes it special. Catherine Opie is a wonderful photographer with a unique eye. This thorough retrospective covers her career up to date, nearly. Within her ongoing themes, such as community, there is much diversity of subject matter, so the variety keeps the viewer intrigued. Essays by the curator and writer Dorothy Allison and Interviews are included. My favorites are those interviews by Russel Ferguson. He seems quite perceptive and knowledgeable, as well as a warm interviewer, thus eliciting a satisfying set of interviews. I also appreciate the bibliography.
There was a problem with packaging the book for delivery, and it got bruised somewhat. The box was trashed. There was inadequate packing underneath the book (inflated plastic is also not environmentally friendly, either) and none above. The empty space of course got completely squashed. There was also only minimal tape used, definitely not according to the rules of the USPS! Of course, as anybody knows, boxes get stacked and thrown around and Amazon needs to prepare for that. I suggest stiff balled-up paper and/or excelsior, and the box filled with packing matls. This is not a cheap novel we are dealing with here, but something people will want to look nice for many years.
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