Joachim, Pear Tree, Reitprechts

Artist Collier Schorr American, born 1963

Date2002

MediumChromogenic print

Dimensions34 1/2 x 43 1/2 in. (87.6 x 110.5 cm)

ClassificationsPhotography

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Art Trust Endowment

Object number2006.6

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Label TextIn reference to her series titled Forests and Fields, which focuses on young German soldiers, Collier Schorr has stated, “War is about losing innocence. And the war pictures were particularly about that journey.” Schorr’s photographs look closely at masculine identity and the transitions from male adolescence to adulthood. Her portraits offer mixed messages: the boys often appear passive, innocent and androgynous, placed in bucolic landscapes, but they also have an uneasy quality that evokes the possibility of danger lurking nearby. The young boy in this image from the series is depicted in a vulnerable state—lounging under a tree, shirtless, hidden by the grass and trees of the forest, with the light and shadow creating a dappled pattern of leaves across his chest. But he is also wearing camouflage pants, and this reference to the military, to war, and to recent history is a subtle, if unsettling, undercurrent that runs through all the images in Forests and Fields.
[L. Dougherty, 2007]
ProvenanceCreated Reitprechts, Germany, 2002; collection of the artist; [303 Gallery, New York]; sold to NCMA, 2006.
Published References“Outsiders: Facing the Camera,” in North Carolina Museum of Art Preview (Winter 2014), illus. (color) 21.
Exhibition HistoryRaleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, “Outsiders: Facing the Camera,” July 21, 2013–January 26, 2014. Object Rights Statement

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