Today, the photographer and artist describes her work as social documentary photography. (culturetype.com)
«[Catherine Opie] is one of the most important inheritors and extenders of social documentary photography in the American tradition,» says Helen Molesworth, chief curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Los Angeles. (cca.edu)
She says early on she was «obsessed with early 20th century social documentary photography and that in the photo history books that she was trained with one of the only significant African Americans was Gordon Parks.» (culturetype.com)