Purple Magazine
— F/W 2011 issue 16
Collier Schorr
Tattoo and Smoking, 2007, pencil on paper, 12 x 9 inches, 14 3 / 4 x 11 3 /4 inches framed
Portrait of Martyn L. Schorr at Laguna Seca, Monterey, California, 1983
No Part of the New World, 2008, archival pigment print, edition 2 of 5
Asoria Chas and Joel Rosen racing by Martyn L. Schorr, 1967, courtesy of Martyn L. Schorr
Arrangement #18 (Blumen), 2008, archival pigment print, edition 3 of 5
Tattoo and Smoking, 2007, pencil on paper, 12 x 9 inches, 14 3 / 4 x 11 3 /4 inches framed
Collage pages from the book There I Was, steidlMACK, 2008
Arrangement #21 (Geraniums), 2008, archival pigment print, edition 2 of 5
A portrait of Collier Schorr by Chuck Close, 2001
Personal pictures and artwork images courtesy of the artist and 303 Gallery, New York
interview by OLIVIER ZAHM
portrait by CHUCK CLOSE
Personal pictures and artwork images courtesy of the artist and 303 Gallery, New York
Collier Schorr is an important post-feminist artist and photographer, who came out of New York’s Lower East Side scene in the late ’80s — and one of the rare artists of her generation to refuse the star label. Collier’s works have always challenged gender politics and created psycho-sexual tension. She has spent every summer of the past 20 years working in the southern German town of Schwäbisch Gmünd photographing young males — in vintage military uniforms — and the German landscape. Recently she trained her lens on her upbringing in Queens, focusing on the life of her father, a photographer and editor of car magazines. Collier is also an excellent fashion photographer, finally portraying women, in preparation for a forthcoming book. I talked to her about her artistic development.
