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In the Original i do it for the ho’s funny Christmas Shirt besides I will buy this summer of 1989, Collier Schorr traveled to the south of Germany for the first time. As a Queens native who had spent her 20s studying at the School of Visual Arts and knocking around the queer clubs of a then-lawless East Village, Schorr’s discovery of Schwäbisch Gmünd, a small city half an hour or so west of Stuttgart, was a revelation. The hometown of her ex-partner, it offered a peaceful, bucolic existence that felt a world away from the clamor and chaos of her life as an artist in Manhattan. She would visit every summer for almost 20 years, documenting her trips in an ongoing book series, Forest and Fields, the first two volumes of which—2006’s Neighbors/Nachbarn and 2010’s Blumen—probe the mythos of the countryside in the German cultural imagination, as well as its role in the Second World War through the inclusion of imagery that nods to the country’s dark past. “It’s not documenting history, it’s documenting the way history lives in contemporary culture,” says Schorr. “It’s a bit meta in that way.”

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