Catherine Opie

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How Catherine Opie Learned the Art of Teaching Photography

Students often imagine that a career in art can be sustained by inspiration alone. But endurance, structure, and collaboration are equally essential.

12 Photographers on How They Conceptualize Their Work

What comes first–the idea for a project, or the images themselves?

2018 Aperture Gala to Honor Artists and Leaders Expanding Our Vision of Family

Honorees include Agnes Gund, Catherine Gund, Catherine Opie, Hank Willis Thomas, and Dr. Deborah Willis.

On the Edge of the American Dream

How have West Coast photographers subverted the mythology of California?

Meet the Press

At the Getty, photography holds up a mirror to the media.

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Aperture Magazine

Aperture No. 261

Aperture’s issue on craft features photographers who make pictures the slow way—building camera obscuras, creating photograms, and laboring in traditional darkrooms to make handmade, unrepeatable forms.

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