Collier Schorr - August thames & hudson

Collier Schorr - August thames & hudsonMACK 2022 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

loud and quiet

those real questions

joining him in what became known as the 'Photography and Language' movement

British soldiers wait in the front yards of private homes

This focus on the marginal passages of disregarded time situates the viewer at the heart of adolescence

Robert Frank’s The Americans has become one of the most influential and enduring works of American photography

Michael Schmidt uses atmosphere-laden details with high-contrast black-and-white images of cityscapes

documenting the long waits

This book is just such a revelation

Throughout the artbook

ISBN: 978-1-910164-91-4

17 x 24 cm