Catherine Opie

The critically acclaimed photographer exhibits a new series of prints depicting high school football players from towns in Alaska, Louisiana, San Diego and L.A. The show will take place at the Regen Projects II location at 9016 Santa Monica Blvd., at Almont Dr.

Cathy Opie's new pictures of high school football teams are not the familiar media images of photojournalism, which attempt to capture the compact, explosive moment in the typical football play. Instead she employs a documentarian's analysis of the moments before and after the main event -- on either side of normative society's 50-yard line. In those twinkling instants of concentrated anticipation or exhausted bewilderment, the outcome is not yet clear. (Read the full review of this photography exhibition.)