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Bullseye with Jesse Thorne is a production of maximum fund.org

and is distributed by NPR. It's bullseye, I'm Jesse Thorne. A panorama of an empty freeway interchange in black and white, the on and off ramps jutting out to God knows where.

A vivid sun-soaked portrait of a woman in her baby under a tree, the National Guard soldier wiping his eyes with a wet cloth

in front of a boarded up storefront, a tight black and white shot of a couple in bondage gear,

one on their knees, the other above them looming.

A kid, maybe four years old, helping out with Thanksgiving dinner in his kitchen,

turkey and one of those Trader Joe's pepper grinders in the background.

There's a gallery in Hollywood called Reagan Projects.

Right now you can see all these photos.

Side by side.

And all the work is by my guest, Catherine Opie.

The show is comprised of works from nearly four decades of her career.

Her breakthrough photographs of queer and fetish communities,

her street photography in Los Angeles, her portraits of surfers, her friends and families.

Opie's photography doesn't fit neatly into one bucket, you probably figured that out.

Maybe if I was a museum curator, I could draw a line through it all by talking about her

commitment to representation, her allusions to art history, her exploration of sexuality and gender roles and maybe I could spice it up with some

artsy mumbo jumbo words like forms and artistic practice or whatever.

But I am not an art curator.

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