Norbert Schoerner

Norbert Schoerner is a German photographer and filmmaker.

Based in London since 1989, he spent the early 1990s experimenting with layered imaging and digital post production, primarily in The Face.^[1] His work has since been published in NY Times magazine,^[2]Vogue,^[3] and Another Magazine.^[4] His advertising campaigns have included Comme des Garçons, Swarovski, Shiseido,^{[citation needed]} Prada,^[3] and Lacoste.^[5]

Schoerner’s photographic and multi-media works have been featured in numerous group shows such as: photo50 (London Art Fair, 2010),^[6] You Dig the Tunnel – I’ll Hide the Soil (White Cube, London, 2008),^[7] Cities: People, Architecture and Society (La Biennale, Venice, 2006),^[8] I Shot Norman Foster at the Architecture Foundation (London, 2005),^[3] and JAM: Tokyo-London (Tokyo Opera City, 2002).^[9]

Solo exhibitions have been held at Comme des Garçons (with The Face, Aoyama, Tokyo, 1996), Chapman Fine Arts (London, 2001),^[10] SDLX (Tokyo, 2004)^[11] and Museum 52 (London, 2004).^[12] In 2005, Schoerner had a mini-retrospective at the Photo festival in Hyères, France for which he created The Court, an interactive and site-specific interpretation of the very notion of “retrospective”.^[13]

Schoerner's book The Order of Things was published by Phaidon in 2002. He has collaborated with Jake and Dinos Chapman,^[14] and contributed to books such as The Impossible Image: Fashion Photography in the Digital Age (Phaidon, 2000), Apocalypse (Royal Academy, London, 2000),^[15] Hell (Jake and Dinos Chapman, Saatchi Gallery, 2003), and Beauty in Vogue (Condé Nast, 2007).

Notes

1. ^ Paul Jobling, "Fashion spreads: word and image in fashion photography since 1980", p.36, Berg Publishers, 1999
2. ^ New York Times, "Contributors"
3. ^ ^{a b c} "I Shot Norman Foster", The Architecture Foundation exhibition notice. Accessed 14 March 2009.
4. ^ "Paul McCarthy spread" , AnOther Mag, A/W 02
5. ^ Hélène Guillaume, "Champions d'hier, icônes d'aujourd'hui", Le Figaro, October 2007.
6. ^ "photo50", London Art Fair exhibition notice.
7. ^ "You Dig the Tunnel, I'll Hide the Soil, White Cube, Hoxton Square and Shoreditch Town Hall", White Cube exhibition notice. Accessed 14 March 2009.
8. ^ "Cities: People, Society, Architecture", 10th International Architecture Exhibition - Venice Biennale, Catalogue edited by Richard Burdett, ISBN 978-0-8478-2879-1. Accessed 27 March 2009
9. ^ "JAM: Tokyo-London" Tokyo Opera City exhibition notice.
10. ^ Carol Kino, "Review of Chapman Fine Arts show", Art in America, October 2002.
11. ^ "the kingdom" SDLX exhibiton notice
12. ^ "Artist info" Museum 52, 2004
13. ^ "Hyères catalogue", text by Stephen Tateishi, p.15.
14. ^ "Disasters of War: Francisco de Goya, Henry Darger, Jake and Dinos Chapman", P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center exhibition notice. Accessed 14 March 2009.
15. ^ "Apocalypse - introduction", Apocalypse ( contributors), Eyestorm, London, 2000. Accessed 16 March 2009.

External links

• Schoerner's site
• Photographs by Schoerner at The Guardian
• Festival International de Mode et de Photographie à Hyères. Requires Flash.
• Archeology of Elegance. 1980 - 2000. 20 Jahre Modephotographie" Deichtorhallen (Hamburg) exhibition notice. (German)
• Soar", a video by Schoerner. New York Times.

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