Catherine Opie. Guggenheim Museum, New York
September 26, 2008 - January 7, 2009
By Ernesto Menéndez-Conde
Catherine Opie had become a well-known photographer by the early nineties, when she made pictures of people from her sadomasochistic, gay-lesbian community. They were very individualized portraits, provided with a subtle theatrical touch: slightly unnatural postures, against a chromatically-intense background, fake moustaches, wigs, and disguises. The bodies [...]
