Product Overview
The renowned photographer Catherine Opie takes on a challenging documentary project an indirect portrait of Elizabeth Taylor through her home and possessions. One of Americas most celebrated living photographers, Catherine Opie works in series that are remarkably varied in
both style and subject matterfrom intimate portraits of the
LGBTQ community to beautiful, nearly-abstract landscapes
featuring ice-fishing houses. Expanding that astonishing
range of subjects further is Opies ambitious recent series of
photographs taken at the home of late movie star Elizabeth
Taylor. Though glamour and celebrity are not common
themes in her work, Opie was inspired by the possibilities this
project offeredrecalling William Egglestons series on Elvis
Presleys Graceland, or her own photographs of Obamas
2008 inauguration, both of which represent indirect portraits
of their subjects. The images in this moving collection
were culled from photos Opie took over the course of six
months, both on the grounds of and inside Taylors home.
The subjects are wildly diversea dog-eared remote control
manual, close-ups of Taylors enormous closets, shelves of
tchotchkes and priceless works of arttelling more about
Taylors life than any celebrity portrait ever could. Through
Opies thoughtful curation, Taylors home tells a poignant
story and reveals the arc of a fascinating life.
