Author: Opie, CatherineThis publication presents more than 60 never-before-seen photographs by Catherine Opie, drawn from over 30 years of making pictures in and of Los Angeles. Illustrated by more than 100 colour and b&w images, 'Harmony Is Fraught' sheds new light on a variety of subjects familiar to Opie’s oeuvre. It includes intimate portraits of lovers and friends, documentary-style photographs of iconic and lesser-known landmarks, experiments in self-portraiture, and scenes of queer life from the 1990s to the present. In “Catherine Opie’s Multiverse,” a new catalogue essay penned in response to the exhibition, Karen Tongson considers the analogical relationship between the timelessness of Opie’s photographs and the city of Los Angeles itself, with its “jarring juxtapositions between 1920s Spanish balconies, mid-century dingbats, aspirational tudors and cloverleaf on-ramps to the future.” ISBN 9780976134473. Regen Projects. pb. 170 pages. 79 colour, 24 b/w ills. 20.3 x 17.8 cm.not yet published
