Collier Schorr

I thought it was interesting how Collier Schorr immersed herself into her subjects in order to photograph them. She wanted a strong relationship to form between the subject and the viewer, and for this she created a strong relationship between herself and the subject. She built a relationship over several years with a family in Germany, and used the sons in her work. She would have them portray soldiers, both German and American. These were not to show just a German Soldier or an American Soldier,, but what was beneath; the person. When she was photographing the wrestlers, she spoke of how she had a friend who was a wrestler, and how they spent hours discussing only wrestling. She would ask questions about things that were second nature to a wrestler, but that she needed to know for her work. She was so involved with her work that while she was photographing, you could see someone get body slammed almost into her; it seemed like she just enters a zone where all she sees is what is through her eyepiece. It was also interesting how she said she wanted to explore life, and explore what it would have been like to have been born a boy; so through her work, she was doing this. She was capturing moments of male adolescence that intrigued her because they were foreign to her.