Catherine Opie: Empty & Full Desk Accessories Drawing on a long and

Drawing on a long and august tradition of American landscape painting and documentary photography

2” l x 1

Part of a generation of artists expanding institutional critique in the 1990s

Shooting passersby against a plywood backdrop as they crossed his field of vision from distant right to close left (some noticing him

5x31x22 cm)

Catherine Opie: Empty & Full Desk Accessories Drawing on a long andCatherine Opie (born 1961) has forged new idioms in both portrait and landscape photography, frequently combining the two genres to explore how people occupy different landscapes from high school football players on the field to ice fishermen on frozen lakes, to surfers waiting for the next wave. In doing so she has come to stand as one of America's foremost documentarians. Recently, Opie has returned to the genre of street photography, elaborating on