About the US-American photographer, Collier SCHORR (b.1963, in New York)

In her photographs, Collier SCHORR explores how nationality, gender, and sexuality influence identity. She stages many of her projects as artistic re-enactments, understanding identity as something that can be enacted through pose and transformation. 

Photo books by Collier SCHORR

'Conquistadores 1996-2002' (2003); 'Jens F.' (2005); 'Freeway Balconies' (2008); 'Neighbors' (2009); 'There I was' (2009); 'Flowers' (2010); 'Male' (2010); '8 Women' (2014); 'I Blame Jordan' (2016); 'Paul's Book' (2019); 'August' (2022)


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HC, 21 x 28 cm., 128 pp., text language: Englsh
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In 'August', Collier SCHORR uses Polaroids that ise made in the early 1990s to explore the borderline of images that exist beyond the immediate moment. The volume implicitly exposes the distance between artist and subject, and between subject and costume.
55,00 € Weight 1 kg
'Paul's Book' by Collier SCHORR is about a model who she visited at home for a shooting. The idea was to experience photography as a social space, a conversation in which his body and her eyes try to understand the fascinations and fantasies of the other.
from 38,00 € Weight 1.2 kg
The comprehensive publication 'The How we See: Photobooks by Women' is an invaluable reference. Sien contains current and historical photo books by women photographers, a chronology and essays on the history and practice of photo books by women.
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The book 'There I Was' by Collier SCHORR marks a change of medium as well as a conceptual departure. Using images of her father at work to Snyder's own snapshots of Vietnam to reportage images, she outlines Snyder's journey from Queens to Vietnam and back
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HC with acetate dust jacket, 24 x 31 cm., 72 pp., 34 color ills., text language: English
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In 'Neighbors', the 1st part of her 'Forest and Fields' trilogy, Collier SCHORR created a documentary fictional portrait of a small town in southern Germany, depicting interwoven stories marked by memory, nationalism, war, emigration as well as family.
48,00 € Weight 1.1 kg
In 'Blumen' (Flowers), the 2nd volume of her 'Forests and Fields' trilogy, photographer Collier SCHORR eschews people and instead arranges objects against the backdrop of landscapes, domestic or commercial environments in a small town in southern Germany.
180,00 € * Weight 1 kg
Exhibitions
Solo exhibitions (a selection)
  • Badischer Kunstverein; 'Flowers', Villa Romana, Florence; 'Here the world held its breath', Barbara Weiss Gallery, Berlin; 'German Faces', CoCA Kronika, Bytom; '8 Women', 303 Gallery, New York
Group exhibitions (a selection)
  • Istanbul Biennial; 'History in Art', Museum of Contemporary Art, Krakow; 'Myths and Realities', School of Visual Arts, New York; 'Morer American Photographs', Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus; 'Better Than Before', Le Consortium, Dijon