Gift of John Andrew MacMahon, Class of 1995

Catherine Opie photographed her local neighborhood and community beginning at an early age. Her works have since explored the contemporary landscape through people’s relationships. In the series Domestic (1995-1998), Opie traveled across the United States on a two-month road trip, capturing photos of lesbian women in their homes. Her photographs evoke documentary and portraiture photography but deviate from the typically heteronormative lens of American fine art photography of the 1990s. This current work from the Domestic series has exhibited at the Regen Projects, Los Angeles (1999), The Photographer’s Gallery, London, and Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.

Dr. Ann Fox’s “Disability in Literature & Art” class wrote and recorded image descriptions of some of the works in the Van Every/Smith collection. Here one student gives a description of the work through their perspective: Elizabeth DePalma ’24.