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Visual Resources Teaching Collection
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Image Record ID:
aahi0009284
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Work Title (display):
Forest Bed Blanket
Image Title:
full view
Work Dates (display):
2001
Work Dates type:
creation
Image Date (display):
2012-03-05
Work Creator (display):
Collier Schorr (American, born 1963)
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female
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Work Creator notes (display):
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. (Art 21 website
Work Style Period:
21st century
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21st century
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Work Subject:
youth (people)
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youth (people)
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Work Subject:
androgyny
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androgyny
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repression (psychology)
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repression (psychology)
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desires
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desires
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ambiguity
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ambiguity
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interpretation
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interpretation
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gender (sex role)
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religion (discipline)
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identity
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identity
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Work Worktype:
photographs
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photographs
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Work Worktype:
chromogenic color prints
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Work Category (VRC classification):
photographs
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Work Measurements (display):
35 in (H) x 44 in (W)
Image Source Reproduction citation:
Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.). Art 21: Art in the Twenty-First Century 2. Ed. Susan Sollins & Marybeth Sollins. New York, N.Y: Abrams, 2003. Print.
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Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.). Art 21: Art in the Twenty-First Century 2. Ed. Susan Sollins & Marybeth Sollins. New York, N.Y: Abrams, 2003. Print.
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false
Image Source Reproduction refid:
0-8109-4609-2
Image Source Reproduction page number:
101
Image Source Reproduction refid type:
ISBN
Image Rights (display):
© 303 Gallery (New York, N.Y.)
Image Rights fair use checklist:
1) use of this image is for education and educational research; 2) access is restricted to University of Colorado and Auraria Higher Education Center communities; 3) the original photographer is credited if known; 4) the image is published; 5) the amount of the work in relation to the whole is needed for education or educational research; 6) the number of derivatives is the minimum required for education or educational research; 7) the image has not been found to be reasonably available for sale; 8) duplication of the image does not violate preexisting contracts.
Work Rights (display):
© Collier Schorr
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Holding Institution:
University of Colorado at Boulder
Collection:
Art and Art History Visual Resources Collection
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