1999 / In And Around Home [SIGNED]

Orange County: The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, 2006. First edition. Hardcover. Fine condition. Large Quarto. 127pp. Original pidgeon blue cloth with color print laid to cover and white and red lettering on cover and spine. Black endpapers. Signed by Catherine Opie on half-title. Catalog for the exhibition tour starting at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum (2006), travelling to the Orange County Museum of Art (2006), the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (2006), and the Weatherspoon Art Museum (2007). Designed by Lorraine Wild and Victoria Lam. With (truncated) an introduction by Elizabeth Armstrong.

"In the pairing of Catherine Opie's series 1999 with her recent photographs from In Around Home (2005-5), the depopulated countryside of America's rural past coexists with the raw vitality of a diverse urban neighborhood. 1999 harks back to Walker Evans's and Dorothea Lange's Depression-era images of the rural countryside...Opie's recent photographs of her neighborhood in In and Around Home reflect a similar empathy while showing us the importance of and the variety in the urban and domestic landscape of the contemporary city." (Armstrong) With texts by A. M. Homes and Jessica Hough. Contains exhibition history and list of works in this exhibition at rear. (Inventory #: 52439)