Travel Photo Jaipur offers a curated selection of international photography inspired by the notio... more Travel Photo Jaipur offers a curated selection of international photography inspired by the notion of journeys and visions as an outsider. The festival exhibitions will be staged at various public locations across Jaipur, inviting visitors to discover the city's heritage. The works will be printed in large formats, and will be complemented by an exciting programme of events that will transform the Pink City into a platform for showcasing and contemplating photography. Karen Knorr's photography explores cultural heritage and its ideological underpinnings. Questions concerning post colonialism and its relationship to aesthetics have permeated her photographic work since the 1980s. Her work India Song researched the stories and myths of India photographing animals and placing them in temples and palaces across heritage sites in Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Maharastra, blurring boundaries between reality and illusion
Karen Knorr's sumptuous composed `tableaux' photographs are the subject of this book, acc... more Karen Knorr's sumptuous composed `tableaux' photographs are the subject of this book, accompanied by three essays, the most useful of which takes the form of a conversation between the photographer and Rebecca Comay. They discuss aspects of Knorr's work, notably her interest in the preservation of cultural heritage and the ways in which the animal is separated from the human in museums. Thus natural history is separated from cultural history. Many of Knorr's images, illustrated in this book, bring the two together in a disturbing way ± apes wander around the sculpture court at the Musee d'Orsay in Paris, stuffed parrots fly around the Wallace collection in London in front of Fragonard's painting, The Swing, a stuffed wolf enters an imposing library full of leather-bound books. Knorr's work is an interesting combination of the cerebral and the sensual. The rich colours and atmospheric spaces of the photographic images are constructed out of an engagement w...
A group exhibition with 18 artists, including Laura Henno, Katinke Lampe, ORLAN and Esther Teichm... more A group exhibition with 18 artists, including Laura Henno, Katinke Lampe, ORLAN and Esther Teichmann, addressing the matter of gender and cultural identity. By re-interpreting at times iconic models of art history made by men, women artists offer an egregiously political message to their re-reading of them. By asking themselves about the place they occupy in visual art, they also question their place in society.
Print Sales’ Gallery presents 'We Could Be Heroes' a group exhibition which looks at the ... more Print Sales’ Gallery presents 'We Could Be Heroes' a group exhibition which looks at the development of youth culture and the bittersweet rites of passage towards adulthood over the last century. The exhibition features work from photographers Bruce Davidson, Ed van der Elsken, Bert Hardy, Karen Knorr and Olivier Richon, Jacques Henri Lartigue, Roger Mayne, Chris Steele-Perkins, Anders Petersen, Al Vandenberg, Weegee and Tom Wood. The term 'teenager' was coined during a new wave of post-war optimism and freedom in which younger generations in Europe and the US seized an opportunity to turn away from tradition and assert new attitudes and subcultures. "We Could Be Heroes" reflects the exuberance, insouciance and rebellious bravado of this new tribe and its predecessors. Photographers Karen Knorr (b. 1954, Germany) and Olivier Richon's (b. 1956. Switzerland) Punk (1977) capture London's punk scene in a series of posed portraits taken in Covent Garden&...
Including essays and an interview with Karen Knorr, this extensively illustrated text is a compre... more Including essays and an interview with Karen Knorr, this extensively illustrated text is a comprehensive overview of the photographer’s work from the 1990s to 2002. Knorr’s photographs explore with wit and humour the patronage and heritage that informs our ideas of art and national identity, with images taken at historical art collections and stately homes, and new developments using sound, installation and video. Knorr has been making photographs since the early 1980s, using a documentary style that recalls earlier traditions of portraiture and painting.
Featured as part of the 2015 UK-China Year of Cultural Exchange, this is the first touring exhibi... more Featured as part of the 2015 UK-China Year of Cultural Exchange, this is the first touring exhibition in China solely devoted to British photography. The exhibition is curated by the Photographers’ Gallery, London in collaboration with the Pin Projects, Beijing OCT-LOFT, Shenzhen and is supported by the British Council. This exhibition presents a survey of over fifty years of British photography through the lens of documentary practices. Featuring work by some of the most significant photographers and artists of the time, it reflects photography’s growing cultural position both within the UK and on the international stage. Work, Rest and Play features over 450 images by thirty-seven acclaimed photographers and artists working across a wide range of genres and disciplines, including photojournalism, portraiture, fashion and fine art. Arranged chronologically the exhibition explores British society through changing national characteristics, attitudes and activities over the last five ...
This exhibition at the Departmental Museum of the Oise in Beauvais, France, includes a selection ... more This exhibition at the Departmental Museum of the Oise in Beauvais, France, includes a selection of older works including Academies and Fables. It was organised by the Filles Du Calvaire Gallery, Paris, France.
Karen Knorr showed her Gentlemen series 1981-1983 at the Pompidou Centre, Paris, in a group exhib... more Karen Knorr showed her Gentlemen series 1981-1983 at the Pompidou Centre, Paris, in a group exhibition dedicated to photography and the 1980's. Heterogeneous, elusive, painful, fantastical, still too close, as light-hearted as they were serious, the Eighties were full of contrasts and paradoxes. With films and photographs from its collections, the Centre Pompidou cast a fresh eye on this decade in an exhibition featuring over 20 artists and some 60 works in a completely new circuit. From Florence Paradeis to Jean-Paul Goude, and from Karen Knorr to Presence Panchounette by way of Martin Parr and Pierre and Gilles, the works selected mostly express criticism of culture and society through various strategies, such as irony, realistic or imaginative staging, pastiche, subverted sets and odes to artifice. The history of Eighties photography somewhat eludes comprehension even today.
Karen Knorr's photographs, apparently faithful to traditional norms of composition, gesture, ... more Karen Knorr's photographs, apparently faithful to traditional norms of composition, gesture, lighting and staging are in fact resolutely ambivalent: tesing their subjects whilst seeming to enter into complicity with their values. The four sequences - Belgravia, Gentlemen, Country Life, Connoisseurs - form fragmented narratives that present and comment on a uniquely English society which knows, better than any other, how to create its own eccentric spaces, impose its codes, polish the veneer of a perfect art of life.
The book contains an essay, Photographs, Allegory and Palimpsest by Antonio Guzman. This is follo... more The book contains an essay, Photographs, Allegory and Palimpsest by Antonio Guzman. This is followed by a text written by Karen Knorr called Photography's Shadow: Academies. This publication was produced on the occassion of a conference on January 14, 1997 in Basse-Normandie.
This panel launches a new research initiative on women and photography at UCA Farnham and brings ... more This panel launches a new research initiative on women and photography at UCA Farnham and brings together an international line up of photographers and curators to discuss key questions emerging from the work of women photographers today. 'Fast Forward: Women and Photography' is a precursor to a larger international symposium taking place in 2015. Considering the history of debates on women and photography both internationally and nationally, this panel will examine the changing place of women in the history of photography and within its institutions. Speakers include: Rosângela Renno; Brett Rogers (Director of the Photographers Gallery); Clare Strand; Anna Fox; and Val Williams. After this discussion, the seminar 'Fast Forward: women and photography then and now', will pick up on the key issues discussed by the panel. This seminar is led by Anna Fox (Professor of Photography at UCA Farnham) and Maria Kapajeva (Researcher and Lecturer, UCA Farnham).
A polemical essay accompanying visual work made in the 1990's. The work addresses histori... more A polemical essay accompanying visual work made in the 1990's. The work addresses historiography and revises history from Enlightenment feminist perspective .
Karen Knorr's photographs, apparently faithful to traditional norms of composition, gesture, ... more Karen Knorr's photographs, apparently faithful to traditional norms of composition, gesture, lighting and staging are in fact resolutely ambivalent: tesing their subjects whilst seeming to enter into complicity with their values. The four sequences - Belgravia, Gentlemen, Country Life, Connoisseurs - form fragmented narratives that present and comment on a uniquely English society which knows, better than any other, how to create its own eccentric spaces, impose its codes, polish the veneer of a perfect art of life.
Travel Photo Jaipur offers a curated selection of international photography inspired by the notio... more Travel Photo Jaipur offers a curated selection of international photography inspired by the notion of journeys and visions as an outsider. The festival exhibitions will be staged at various public locations across Jaipur, inviting visitors to discover the city's heritage. The works will be printed in large formats, and will be complemented by an exciting programme of events that will transform the Pink City into a platform for showcasing and contemplating photography. Karen Knorr's photography explores cultural heritage and its ideological underpinnings. Questions concerning post colonialism and its relationship to aesthetics have permeated her photographic work since the 1980s. Her work India Song researched the stories and myths of India photographing animals and placing them in temples and palaces across heritage sites in Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Maharastra, blurring boundaries between reality and illusion
Karen Knorr's sumptuous composed `tableaux' photographs are the subject of this book, acc... more Karen Knorr's sumptuous composed `tableaux' photographs are the subject of this book, accompanied by three essays, the most useful of which takes the form of a conversation between the photographer and Rebecca Comay. They discuss aspects of Knorr's work, notably her interest in the preservation of cultural heritage and the ways in which the animal is separated from the human in museums. Thus natural history is separated from cultural history. Many of Knorr's images, illustrated in this book, bring the two together in a disturbing way ± apes wander around the sculpture court at the Musee d'Orsay in Paris, stuffed parrots fly around the Wallace collection in London in front of Fragonard's painting, The Swing, a stuffed wolf enters an imposing library full of leather-bound books. Knorr's work is an interesting combination of the cerebral and the sensual. The rich colours and atmospheric spaces of the photographic images are constructed out of an engagement w...
A group exhibition with 18 artists, including Laura Henno, Katinke Lampe, ORLAN and Esther Teichm... more A group exhibition with 18 artists, including Laura Henno, Katinke Lampe, ORLAN and Esther Teichmann, addressing the matter of gender and cultural identity. By re-interpreting at times iconic models of art history made by men, women artists offer an egregiously political message to their re-reading of them. By asking themselves about the place they occupy in visual art, they also question their place in society.
Print Sales’ Gallery presents 'We Could Be Heroes' a group exhibition which looks at the ... more Print Sales’ Gallery presents 'We Could Be Heroes' a group exhibition which looks at the development of youth culture and the bittersweet rites of passage towards adulthood over the last century. The exhibition features work from photographers Bruce Davidson, Ed van der Elsken, Bert Hardy, Karen Knorr and Olivier Richon, Jacques Henri Lartigue, Roger Mayne, Chris Steele-Perkins, Anders Petersen, Al Vandenberg, Weegee and Tom Wood. The term 'teenager' was coined during a new wave of post-war optimism and freedom in which younger generations in Europe and the US seized an opportunity to turn away from tradition and assert new attitudes and subcultures. "We Could Be Heroes" reflects the exuberance, insouciance and rebellious bravado of this new tribe and its predecessors. Photographers Karen Knorr (b. 1954, Germany) and Olivier Richon's (b. 1956. Switzerland) Punk (1977) capture London's punk scene in a series of posed portraits taken in Covent Garden&...
Including essays and an interview with Karen Knorr, this extensively illustrated text is a compre... more Including essays and an interview with Karen Knorr, this extensively illustrated text is a comprehensive overview of the photographer’s work from the 1990s to 2002. Knorr’s photographs explore with wit and humour the patronage and heritage that informs our ideas of art and national identity, with images taken at historical art collections and stately homes, and new developments using sound, installation and video. Knorr has been making photographs since the early 1980s, using a documentary style that recalls earlier traditions of portraiture and painting.
Featured as part of the 2015 UK-China Year of Cultural Exchange, this is the first touring exhibi... more Featured as part of the 2015 UK-China Year of Cultural Exchange, this is the first touring exhibition in China solely devoted to British photography. The exhibition is curated by the Photographers’ Gallery, London in collaboration with the Pin Projects, Beijing OCT-LOFT, Shenzhen and is supported by the British Council. This exhibition presents a survey of over fifty years of British photography through the lens of documentary practices. Featuring work by some of the most significant photographers and artists of the time, it reflects photography’s growing cultural position both within the UK and on the international stage. Work, Rest and Play features over 450 images by thirty-seven acclaimed photographers and artists working across a wide range of genres and disciplines, including photojournalism, portraiture, fashion and fine art. Arranged chronologically the exhibition explores British society through changing national characteristics, attitudes and activities over the last five ...
This exhibition at the Departmental Museum of the Oise in Beauvais, France, includes a selection ... more This exhibition at the Departmental Museum of the Oise in Beauvais, France, includes a selection of older works including Academies and Fables. It was organised by the Filles Du Calvaire Gallery, Paris, France.
Karen Knorr showed her Gentlemen series 1981-1983 at the Pompidou Centre, Paris, in a group exhib... more Karen Knorr showed her Gentlemen series 1981-1983 at the Pompidou Centre, Paris, in a group exhibition dedicated to photography and the 1980's. Heterogeneous, elusive, painful, fantastical, still too close, as light-hearted as they were serious, the Eighties were full of contrasts and paradoxes. With films and photographs from its collections, the Centre Pompidou cast a fresh eye on this decade in an exhibition featuring over 20 artists and some 60 works in a completely new circuit. From Florence Paradeis to Jean-Paul Goude, and from Karen Knorr to Presence Panchounette by way of Martin Parr and Pierre and Gilles, the works selected mostly express criticism of culture and society through various strategies, such as irony, realistic or imaginative staging, pastiche, subverted sets and odes to artifice. The history of Eighties photography somewhat eludes comprehension even today.
Karen Knorr's photographs, apparently faithful to traditional norms of composition, gesture, ... more Karen Knorr's photographs, apparently faithful to traditional norms of composition, gesture, lighting and staging are in fact resolutely ambivalent: tesing their subjects whilst seeming to enter into complicity with their values. The four sequences - Belgravia, Gentlemen, Country Life, Connoisseurs - form fragmented narratives that present and comment on a uniquely English society which knows, better than any other, how to create its own eccentric spaces, impose its codes, polish the veneer of a perfect art of life.
The book contains an essay, Photographs, Allegory and Palimpsest by Antonio Guzman. This is follo... more The book contains an essay, Photographs, Allegory and Palimpsest by Antonio Guzman. This is followed by a text written by Karen Knorr called Photography's Shadow: Academies. This publication was produced on the occassion of a conference on January 14, 1997 in Basse-Normandie.
This panel launches a new research initiative on women and photography at UCA Farnham and brings ... more This panel launches a new research initiative on women and photography at UCA Farnham and brings together an international line up of photographers and curators to discuss key questions emerging from the work of women photographers today. 'Fast Forward: Women and Photography' is a precursor to a larger international symposium taking place in 2015. Considering the history of debates on women and photography both internationally and nationally, this panel will examine the changing place of women in the history of photography and within its institutions. Speakers include: Rosângela Renno; Brett Rogers (Director of the Photographers Gallery); Clare Strand; Anna Fox; and Val Williams. After this discussion, the seminar 'Fast Forward: women and photography then and now', will pick up on the key issues discussed by the panel. This seminar is led by Anna Fox (Professor of Photography at UCA Farnham) and Maria Kapajeva (Researcher and Lecturer, UCA Farnham).
A polemical essay accompanying visual work made in the 1990's. The work addresses histori... more A polemical essay accompanying visual work made in the 1990's. The work addresses historiography and revises history from Enlightenment feminist perspective .
Karen Knorr's photographs, apparently faithful to traditional norms of composition, gesture, ... more Karen Knorr's photographs, apparently faithful to traditional norms of composition, gesture, lighting and staging are in fact resolutely ambivalent: tesing their subjects whilst seeming to enter into complicity with their values. The four sequences - Belgravia, Gentlemen, Country Life, Connoisseurs - form fragmented narratives that present and comment on a uniquely English society which knows, better than any other, how to create its own eccentric spaces, impose its codes, polish the veneer of a perfect art of life.
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