LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) presents Catherine Opie: Figure and Landscape, featuring recent work by the internationally renowned and LA-based photographer Catherine Opie. The show’s primary focus is high-school football, a subject that allowed Opie to explore issues of masculinity, community, and national identity. On view through October 17, 2010, the exhibition is curated by Britt Salvesen, curator and head of the Wallis Annenberg Photography Department, as well as the Prints and Drawings Department. “Catherine Opie’s ability to craft beautiful and compelling pictures is matched by her awareness of art’s social and historical significance,” says Salvesen. “She is producing a true document of our time.” Over the last three years, Opie photographed football games and