Catherine Opie, In Memory/Leigh Bowery, 2000
Images of Catherine Opie, In Memory/Leigh Bowery

In Memory/Leigh Bowery, 2000
Color Polaroid
Framed: 107 ¼ × 43 ½ in. (272.4 × 110.5 cm)
Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Gift of Gary Heiferman, Chip Tom and Michael W. Rabkin, C. Bradford Smith and Donald L. Davis, in honor of the birth of Oliver Hill Opie; and gift in memory of John S. Baran, 2003.1
Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago
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- Catherine Opie, Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer (Lake Michigan), 2004–05
- Short Four vertical images show the sky and a body of water. The clouds, clarity of the sky, and color of the water are slightly varied in each panel.
- Catherine Opie, Untitled 10 (Chicago) from American Cities series, 2004–05
- Short Black-and-white photograph of a deserted subterranean street
- Catherine Opie, Untitled 13 (Chicago) from American Cities series, 2004–05
- Short The horizontal black-and-white photograph captures a night view of a high-rise, church, and vacant lot.
- Long In the horizontal black-and-white photograph taken at night, a high-rise building cropped by the image frame dwarfs a church to its right. An empty lot fills the foreground of the deserted neighborhood, drawing attention to bright starbursts from the streetlights. The spare high-rise with rectangular windows contrasts with the traditional church and steeple topped by a cross. The dark sky and white buildings and ground create the impression of a photographic negative.
- Catherine Opie, Untitled 14 (Chicago) from American Cities series, 2004–05
- Short A wide black-and-white photograph of the revolving door entrance to a stone building
- Catherine Opie, Untitled 3 (Chicago) from American Cities series, 2004–05
- Short Black-and-white street-level photograph of a cityscape with office buildings surrounding a round spiraling structure brightly illuminated from within
- Catherine Opie, Untitled 7 (Chicago) from American Cities series, 2004–05
- Short Black-and-white nighttime photograph with a metal grated bridge in the foreground and concrete-and-glass office buildings in the distance
- Catherine Opie, Untitled 8 (Chicago) from American Cities series, 2004–05
- Short Black-and-white photograph taken at night of a modern house with translucent walls illuminated from the inside and with a ground level porch supported by rectangular columns
- Catherine Opie, Untitled #14, from Mini-mall series, 1997
- Short Black-and-white photograph of a two-story L-shaped building with palm trees and a sparsely clouded sky