Collier Schorr – Jens F., a Vintage Book by Steidl

Video (1:13): Publisher Gerhard Steidl talks about the vintage art book Jens F. by Collier Schorr.

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Collier Schorr – Jens F.
With an essay by Collier Schorr
Published by steidlMACK (2005)
168 pages, 148 color plates
Clothbound hardcover with a tipped-in image in a handmade slipcase
ISBN 3-86521-156-9

Jens F. is a limited-edition artist’s book using photography and appropriation to subtly explore ideas of desire, gender, identification and performance. In Collier Schorr’s own words: “The Jens pictures began as an experiment. To photograph a young boy in many of the positions that Andrew Wyeth painted the model Helga… The work evolved into a kind of dance between the two models, between painting and photography… As a way of keeping track of all these images, I began to clip out the contact prints I liked and to paste them into Wyeth’s book The Helga Pictures.” – Steidl