{"id":21012,"date":"2019-11-29T10:12:31","date_gmt":"2019-11-29T08:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/?p=21012"},"modified":"2019-12-16T13:55:05","modified_gmt":"2019-12-16T11:55:05","slug":"photographers-in-focus-catherine-opie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/photographers-in-focus-catherine-opie\/","title":{"rendered":"Photographers In Focus: Catherine Opie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XqvRoh4c3gY\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Video (5:08): artist talk, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lehmannmaupin.com\/artists\/catherine-opie\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Catherine Opie<\/a> talks about her photography.<\/p>\n<p>Excerpt from the video description:<br \/>\nFrom freeways to nipple rings, dinner scenes to dildos, iconoclastic American photographer Catherine Opie describes her thirty-year oeuvre as \u201ctwisted social documentary photography\u201d that is unapologetically queer. (&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>Opie rose to prominence in the early \u201990s with an arresting portrait series of friends from Los Angeles\u2019s leather community. Her refined and elegant images of California\u2019s drag queens, queers, leather dykes and transgender people upended traditional notions of sexuality and opened up conversations about identity performance. <\/p>\n<p>As a photographer and member of San Francisco\u2019s BDSM scene during the \u201980s, Opie vowed never to be a voyeur within her own community. One of her earliest works is Cathy (bed self-portrait) (1987), which is a brazen black-and-white image she took of herself wearing a strap-on, dressed in negligee astride a bed. This and other photographs from the artist were an affront to social conservatism and cultural censorship, created in the knowledge that representation is crucial to securing recognition and respect.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><em>[The copyright of the video above remains with the original holder and it is used here for the purpose of education, comparison and criticism only.]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video (5:08): artist talk, Catherine Opie talks about her photography.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,22],"tags":[91],"class_list":["post-21012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-lesbian-art","category-photography","tag-catherine-opie","post_format-post-format-video"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}