Victor schrager biography

Victor Schrager has devoted himself to still life photography for over thirty years.

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When he began, the genre was seen as peripheral, but Schrager wanted to restore its relevance and he was quickly successful. He was included in the Whitney Biennial’s first photography section, in 1981, and he has since exhibited throughout the world and published several books.

Schrager initially turned to still life as a way to sift different categories of image – an approach he describes as “composing with information.” His photographs became archaeologies of the high and low, showing us glimpses of texts, reproductions from books, and small objects bearing decoration and information.

Most of that early work was executed in color, but in the 1990s he moved towards black and white. The Botany series (1999-2000) concentrated on plants and flowers, books now serving as the back drop for much more richly present depictions of nature.

Throughout the late 1990s he worked on a project to photograph 100