The following conversation is the result of a several-week-long correspondence between Collier Schorr and German artist Thomas Demand.
So is the tension between the photographer and her subject, of which Schorr could not be more aware: she ties up flowers with the same tentative consciousness that appears in her photographs of German teens, as unsettled in their uniforms as we are in our individual histories. Individualism and nationalism, history and identity, war and peace – all themes intuited and exhumed in her work. This small city in the German state of Baden-Württemburg was the site of two American army bases after WWII, and Schorr’s work took on innumerable dualities there. The New York-born artist has been spending the summer with in-laws in Schwäbisch Gmünd for nearly two decades. “How I Made Germany Mine” was the title of a recent talk given by COLLIER SCHORR at the American Academy in Berlin.
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