Synopsis
In the early 1990s Collier Schorr began working on and off in Southern Germany, compiling a documentary and fictional portrait of a small town inhabited by historical apparitions. Combining the overlapping roles of war photographer, traveling portraitist, anthropologist, and family historian, Schorr tells the interwoven stories of a place and time determined by memory, nationalism, war, emigration, and family. August employs Polaroids made by Schorr in Schwäbisch Gmünd and in this period to explore the liminal space of images that were never intended to persist beyond the immediate moment. Looking back some twenty years, August both historicises the work and examines the devices of making, revealing the mistakes in attempting to merge contemporary Germans into their past, implicitly exposing the distance between artist and subject, and between the subject and costumes. Aware of the demons and pitfalls of historical authority, Schorr probes at the space between identification and critique – a German boy in a feather boa, posed after Liliana Cavani’s The Night Porter, underscores her interest in the performative history of fetishism and uniform, and the way history shifts between documentary and fictionalization, distance and desire. August is the third volume in a series of books entitled Forests and Fields (Wald und Wiesen), following Neighbors/Nachbarn (2006) and Blumen (2010). Forests and Fields is intrinsically about book making, an ongoing suite of artists books that utilizes traditional notions of category to create different points of view. Each publication 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 books share similar dimensions but each is 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.
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August; Forests and Fields, Volume 3
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MACK Books, London, England, 2022
ISBN 10 : 1913620700
ISBN 13 : 9781913620707
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Vendeur : Marc Sena Carrel, Pacifica, CA, Etats-Unis
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Hardcover. Etat : As New. No Jacket. Schorr, Collier (illustrateur). 1st Edition. Stated first edition published by MACK. Printed in Italy. 12.5 x 10 inches. Bound in linen-like buckram hardboards in medium gray tones, with B&W glossy paper photo-illustration to the front board. Unbumped spine head and tail, and with sharp corners. Text block firmly bound in. With unnumbered pages. With approximately 54 B/W and color photo-plates, mostly full-page. Also with an annotated list of the plates. An impressively clean and tight interior. An As New copy. No dust jacket, as issued. 2 lbs. 4 oz. Collier Schorr [b. 1963] is an American artist and fashion photographer best known for adolescent portraits that blend photographic realism with elements of fiction and youthful fantasy. Her work explores a multitude of themes, including history, nationality, and war, with an emphasis on identity and gender. All Polaroids for this book were made with a Graflex Crown 4x5 camera between the years of 2001 and 2006. Primarily handheld. This book is a photo-documentary of sorts of the history and present of a small city in Germany. The Title, August, may be an homage; the photographer states: "I felt both a documentarian like August Sander and a war photographer from any time period." August is the third volume in a series of books entitled Forests and Fields (Wald und Wiesen), following Neighbors/Nachbarn (2006) and Flowers/Blumen (2010). '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 publication 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. N° de réf. du vendeur 008324
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