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"The American photographer Collier SCHORR has been working in Southern Germany for the past 13 years, compiling 'Forests and Fields', a fictional documentary portrait of a small town inhabited by historical apparitions. Merging the roles of war photographer, traveling portraitist, anthropologist and family historian, she interweaves tales of war, emigration and family. As an ongoing suite of artist's books, 'Forests and Fields' is also a project about bookmaking. Content
In the latest installment, 'Blumen', Collier SCHORR moves away from portraying the figure and instead creates arrangements of objects against the landscapes and domestic or commercial settings of her much-investigated town. When people do appear in the photo volume 'Blumen', they are usually props in a larger examination of this dialogue between objects and landscape. Flowers, signage, plums, chairs and plaster fawns are the real protagonists of this volume, further detailing the daily life of the townspeople of Schwabish Gmund. A boxed, numbered and signed special edition of the complete set of the Forest and Fields series will be available when the project has been completed." (© Steidl Verlag, 2008)
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