Connoisseurs & Academies - Hardcover

by Karen Knorr (Author), Karen Knorr (Photographer), Sabina Jaskot-Gill (Text by (Art/Photo Books))

Photographic venture into the grand architectural settings of museums, stately homes, and academies

Karen Knorr's photographic series Connoisseurs & Academies induce a kaleidoscope of memories: Photographed between 1986 and 2005 with an analog camera, her images let us venture into the intricate world of the history of museums and stately homes, of objects, paintings, connoisseurship, and the structures of academies. The use of animals as an allegorical motif is today embedded in Knorr's practice, but they first appear in Connoisseurs, where a chimpanzee becomes the Genius of the Place. Karen Knorr's (b. 1954) works are in the collections of the Tate and Victoria & Albert Museum, London, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris and Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, SFMOMA, San Francisco, National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, and Museum of Art and Photography (MAP) in Bangalore, among others.

Author Biography

Karen Knorr (USA / UK) was born in Germany and grew up in San Juan Puerto Rico in the 1960's. She is a Professor of Photography at the University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, UK since 2010. She lives and works in London, U.K. Karen Knorr won the V International Photography Pilar Citoler Prize in 2010. She is Honorary Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society, Knorr is an advocate for women in photography and is on the steering committee and joint founder with Professor Anna Fox of Fast Forward Women in Photography https: //fastforward.photography/people/ Knorr was nominated for the Deutsche Börse in 2011 and 2012 and Prix Pictet in 2012, 2018 Karen Knorr's work is included in collections worldwide including MOMAK, Kyoto, Museum Of SFOMA, San Francisco and MFAH, Houston and Folkwang Museum, Essen, Tate Museum, London and Pompidou Museum, France. Her work is represented by Filles du Calvaire (France) Danziger (New York), Holden Luntz (West Palm Beach), Augusta Edwards(UK), White Conduit Projects(UK), Sundaram Tagore (Singapore)

Recent exhibitions in the US:
India Song, Danziger Gallery, Begamont Art Center, Santa Monica, USA (10 September-5 November 2022)
Transmigrations, Sundaram Tagore Chelsea, New York, USA (5 May-4 June 2022)
India Song, Danziger Gallery, ADAA, The Art Show, The Armory, New York, USA (2-7 November 2021)
Animals 2020-2021, Danziger Gallery, New York, USA (Online, January 2021
Europe and India, DanzigerGallery, New York, USA (April 13-May 25, 2017)