FORTHCOMING

Catherine Opie: Harmony Is Fraught

Foreword by Shaun Caley Regen. Text by Karen Tongson, Grant Johnson.

This publication presents more than 60 never-before-seen photographs by Catherine Opie (born 1961), drawn from over 30 years of making pictures in and of Los Angeles. Illustrated by more than 100 color and black-and-white images, Harmony Is Fraught sheds new light on a variety of subjects familiar to Opie’s expansive oeuvre. It includes intimate portraits of lovers and friends, documentary-style photographs of iconic and lesser-known landmarks, unprecedented experiments in self-portraiture, and scenes of queer life from the 1990s to the present. In Catherine Opie’s Multiverse,” a new catalog essay penned in response to the exhibition, Karen Tongson considers the analogical . . . .go to book page >>