Catherine Opie, Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer (Lake Michigan), 2004–05
Images of Catherine Opie, Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer (Lake Michigan)

- 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.
Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer (Lake Michigan), 2004–05
Chromogenic development prints
Four parts, framed: 50 15/16 × 40 15/16 in. (129.4 × 104 cm), 51 1/8 × 41 1/8 in. (129.9 × 104.5 cm), 51 1/8 × 41 1/8 in. (129.9 × 104.5 cm), and 50 15/16 × 41 in. (129.4 × 104.1 cm)
Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Joseph and Jory Shapiro Fund by exchange, 2006.1.a-d
Photo: Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago
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- Short A black-and-white photograph of two men shaking hands is mounted to a light-colored piece of wood.
- Long A black-and-white photograph with white borders is affixed to a small wood board with photo corners. The photo shows a scene in a supper club or restaurant. It features two fair-skinned, dark-haired men in suits standing, shaking hands. The man on the left holds a small box and the man on the right extends his left hand to receive it. In the foreground, two seated, light-skinned people with long dark glossy hair look up at the men from their table. The two men look directly at us. A date stamp reading "JAN 3 1968" appears in the bottom border of the photo. The ends of two knotted leather cords emerge above and below the photo on the left side of the wooden board, seemingly binding the board like a book cover. A signature reading "Edward Ruscha" appears on the board in blue ink below the image, and the initials "B.A.B." are signed and underlined in black on the wood above the mounted photograph.
Collection
- 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