Touched by Youth by Collier Schorr for Dazed & Confused June 2010
June’s issue of Dazed & Confused gives priority to Collier Schorr’s latest story entitled Touched by Youth. Both casual and eclectic in style, the portfolio highlights youth with great ease. Combining forces, Robbie Spencer styles the boys, while Katie Shillingford has her way with a young roster of up and comers that include Aleks (Viva), Ann, Kirby, Bo Don, Lisanne de Jong and Tati.
Collier Schorr was born in New York City in 1963 and attended the School of the Visual Arts, New York. Best known for her portraits of adolescent men and women, Schorr’s pictures often blend photographic realism with elements of fiction and youthful fantasy. For her 1998 project “Neue Soldatten,” Schorr juxtaposed documentary-style pictures of a Swedish army battalion with pictures of fake Swedish soldiers played by German teenagers. Several of these young men reappear in Schorr’s 2001 project “Forests and Fields”, where this time they are dressed in an anxious assortment of German, Israeli, Weimar (Nazi), and Vietnam-era American Army uniforms. Schorr’s dubious images not only call into question the fractured role of soldiering in today’s society, but also examine the way nationality, gender, and sexuality influence an individual’s identity. For her “Jens F./Helga” project, Schorr set out to create a comprehensive, yet unusual portrait of a young man by photographing a German schoolboy posed as Helga, the housewife whom American painter Andrew Wyeth studied in secret for nearly twenty years. Whereas in this body of work Schorr is comparing the way men and women pose differently for the artist’s gaze, in photographs of American high school and collegiate wrestlers the artist trains her camera on a tribe of young men whose bodies and athletic training homogenize personal differences. Schorr’s work was featured in the 2002 Whitney Biennial and the 2003 International Center for Photography Triennial. Schorr has exhibited her work internationally at prestigious venues that include the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, the Jewish Museum in New York, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, and the Consorcio Salamanca in Salamanca, Spain. Collier Schorr currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
Thank you BerlinRocks for starting this thread! Collier Schorr is hands down my favorite photographer out there. Her massive story in Dazed & Confused was just heaven to look at. It's rare to see images of substance in fashion magazines, but some how Collier is able to make it happen.
magazine: 10 Magazine Summer / Autumn 2010
editorial: Rie In Pre: A Girl, In A Room, Wearing Clothes
photographer: Collier Schorr
styling: David Vandewal
model: Rie Rasmussen
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