Norbert Schoerner

Who is Norbert Schoerner?

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. His work has since been published in NY Times magazine,Vogue, and Another Magazine. His advertising campaigns have included Comme des Garçons, Swarovski, Shiseido, Prada, and Lacoste.

Schoerner’s photographic and multi-media works have been featured in numerous group shows such as: photo50, You Dig the Tunnel – I’ll Hide the Soil, Cities: People, Architecture and Society, I Shot Norman Foster at the Architecture Foundation, and JAM: Tokyo-London.

Solo exhibitions have been held at Comme des Garçons, Chapman Fine Arts, SDLX and Museum 52. In 2005, Schoerner had a mini-retrospective at the photography festival in Hyères, France for which he created The Court, an interactive and site-specific interpretation of the very notion of “retrospective”.

Schoerner's book The Order of Things was published by Phaidon in 2002. He has collaborated with Jake and Dinos Chapman, and contributed to books such as The Impossible Image: Fashion Photography in the Digital Age, Apocalypse, Hell, and Beauty in Vogue. In 2010 he created a photographic essay for the Artangel commissioned Victoria and Albert Museum project The Concise Dictionary of Dress.