Bodies of Work
Catherine Opie has multiple bodies of work:
- Master Plan (1986-88)
- Being and Having (1991)
- LA Houses (1995) Chromogenic Prints 40' x 50"
- LA Freeways (1994-95) Platinum Prints 2 1/4' by 6 2/4" which relate to images in a rear view window and early photographs of Egyptian ruins.
- Mini-malls (1997) Iris Print 16" x 41"
- Portraits (1993) Chromogenic Prints in various sizes. These portraits of "queer" people references August Sander and Hans Holbein.
- Domestic series (1998) Chromogenic Prints in various sizes. Portraits of Lesbian relationships throughout the United States.
- Ice Houses (outgrowth of residency at Walker Art Museum)
- Surfers (2004)
- High school football players (Looks at American identity through iconic images and a redefinition of landscape in a photographic practice.)
- Girlfriends
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