Catherine Opie
Design Matters with Debbie Millman
Design Matters Media
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 13 September 2021
⏱️ 90 minutes
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At 8 years old, Catherine Opie realized “that history is made within an image culture”—and here, she discusses her incredible life as a photographer driven by culture.
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| 0:00.0 | Ted Audio Collective |
| 0:07.0 | I wanted the cutting and the needles to be completely precise because I was thinking |
| 0:13.5 | about a whole minds kind of Henry VIII portrait in a certain way and I was thinking about |
| 0:20.1 | what the word pervert meant in 1994 in my community especially when there was a beginning of |
| 0:27.3 | a divide within our own community. |
| 0:33.3 | From the Ted Audio Collective this is Design Matters with Debbie Milman. |
| 0:39.8 | For 17 years Debbie Milman has been talking with designers and other creative people about |
| 0:44.0 | what they do, how they got to be who they are, and what they're thinking about and working |
| 0:48.4 | on. |
| 0:49.6 | On this episode, artist Catherine Obey talks about her photography and herself portraits. |
| 0:56.4 | So what does the word pervert mean, how do we deal with language, you know, is this |
| 1:01.5 | enough of a pervert for you? |
| 1:07.0 | Hey listener, a quick favor, we are conducting an audience survey and we'd be really grateful |
| 1:11.2 | if you could take just a few minutes to respond. |
| 1:13.9 | Please visit survey.prx.org slash design matters to take the survey today. |
| 1:20.1 | That's survey.prx.org slash design matters. |
| 1:24.1 | Thanks. |
| 1:25.5 | Before my interview today with Catherine Obey, I'd like to talk to you about a brand new |
| 1:30.7 | book that I'm really excited about. |
| 1:33.2 | The finished brand Marameco is synonymous with joyful colors and bold, expressive prints. |
| 1:39.6 | A beautiful new book from Yale University Press titled Marameco, The Art of Print Making, |
| 1:46.9 | illustrates Marameco's 70 years of extraordinary designs and tells the story of the people behind |
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