29 Quotes by Catherine Opie

Light is everything in photographs and has to be considered in all situations.

The reason I call myself a documentary photographer is the idea of how photographs contain and participate in history.

There's a lesbian aesthetic, just as there's gay camp, but I don't know if there's such a thing as 'lesbian art.'

My dad was a very conservative Republican businessman, so obviously I considered it a problem when I realized I was a lesbian.

I always give a print to everybody I photograph, and some of my subjects have told me they have a hard time hanging them up at home.

I want to seduce my viewers and be able to hold them with the work. Much of that is done in terms of formalist ideas that I bring to the work.

I'm a complete supporter of Obama and kind of in love with him.

I do photograph things for people to look at 100 years from now. But we're such a mediated society that things become historical the next day.

I'm kind of a twisted social documentary photographer.