CATHERINE OPIE: SKYWAYS AND ICEHOUSES - SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER

(OPIE, CATHERINE). Opie, Catherine & Douglas Fogle, et al.

ISBN 10: 093564072X / ISBN 13: 9780935640724

Published by Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, 2002

About this Item

56pp, 9 color and 8 b&w illustrations + color cover. Designed by Linda Byrne and Andrew Blauvelt. With a biography and exhibition checklist. This is the austere catalogue published in conjunction with the 2002 Walker Art Center exhibition "Catherine Opie: Skyways and Icehouses". It contains the Los Angeles-based photographer's black and white panoramic images of the Minneapolis and St. Paul Skyway systems along with her color work documenting Minnesota's eclectic hand built structures used to protect ice fishermen as they ply their sport during the harsh Midwestern winters. A most handsome example additionally BOLDLY SIGNED "Catherine Opie" in black ink on the title page in the publisher's printed obi.

Seller Inventory # 023108

Bibliographic Details

• Title: CATHERINE OPIE: SKYWAYS AND ICEHOUSES - SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER
• Publisher: Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
• Publication Date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 093564072X
• ISBN 13: 9780935640724
• Binding: Pictorial Self Wrappers
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Near Fine.
• Signed: Signed by the Photographer
• Book Type: Photography Monograph
• Seller catalogs:
  • Queer / LGBTQ+
  • Architecture
  • Photography Monographs
  • Signed Books
  • Exhibition Catalogues
  • California Artists and Arts

About this title

Synopsis

Since the late 1980s, Catherine Opie's interest in the motif of the visual road trip has resulted in photographs that sumultaneously document and question the self-constructed identities of the people and places that characterize America. From the freeways of Los Angeles to the downtown of St. Louis and the Wall Street district of New York, Opie now turns her camera to the skyways and icehouses of the Twin Cities. The culmination of a year-long commission from the Walker Art Center, Skyways and Icehouses provides a meditative portrait of a locale, at once a straight-forward documentation and an inquiring social psycho-geography, an exploration of those symbolic architectures often taken for granted. Personal anecdotes, memories, and stories fron Minnesota residents animate Opie's haunting landscapes.

Introduction by Douglas Fogle.

AUTHOR BIO: Catherine Opie was born in Ohio. In the past few years, her work has been the subject of one-person shows at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, the St. Louis Art Museum, and the Photographer's Gallery, London. Opie teaches photography at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she currently lives.

About the Author

Catherine Opie was born in Ohio. In the past few years, her work has been the subject of one-person shows at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, the St. Louis Art Museum, and the Photographer's Gallery, London. Opie teaches photography at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she currently lives.