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, 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).