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Collier Schorr
Forest and Fields
Volume 1. Neighbors
The American photographer Collier Schorr has been working in Southern Germany for the past 12 years, compiling a
documentary and fictional portrait of a small town inhabited by historical apparitions. For Schorr, the German
landscape is a map of her own history, both imagined and inherited. Combining the overlapping roles of war
photographer, traveling portraitist, anthropologist and family historian, the series Forest and Fields (Wald und Wiesen)
tells the interwoven stories of a place and time determined by memory, nationalism, war, emigration and family.
Forests and Fields is intrinsically about book making, an ongoing suite of artist’s books that utilizes traditional notions
of category to create different points of view. Each volume is part diary, photo-annual, palimpsest, and scrapbook, and
involves a process which constantly expands and contradicts the artist’s oeuvre through re-edits of the work to create
new views through the material. The first two volumes will focus on Neighbors and Reportage.
Subsequent volumes will include landscapes, architecture, flowers and sport. Each volume will share the same
dimensions but each will be designed as an independent and unique work in itself. The final volume will be text based,
a collection of commissioned and re-published writings inspired by the ideas explored in the pictures.
A boxed, numbered and signed special edition of the complete set of the Forest and Fields series will be available once
the project has been completed.
Collier Schorr, born in New York in 1963, has exhibited her work internationally at prestigious venues that include the
Museum of Modern Art, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, the Jewish Museum in New York, the Stedelijk Museum
in Amsterdam, the 2002 Whitney Biennial, the 2003 International Center for Photography Triennial and the Consorcio
Salamanca in Salamanca, Spain. Work from Forest & Fields has been collected by many major museums including The
Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Guggenheim and The Jewish Museum. Schorr is
represented by 303 Gallery, NYC, and Stuart Shave/Modern Art in London, and currently lives and works in Brooklyn,
New York.
Exhibition: Modern Art / Stuart Shave, London, September, 2006.
Collier Schorr
Forest and Fields
Volume 1. Neighbors
88 pages, 58 tritone plates
12.5 x 10.25 in. / 32 x 26 cm
Hardcover
US $ 45.00 / £ 25.00 / R 38.00
ISBN 3-86521-303-0
ISBN-13 978-3-86521-303-7
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