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When Fashion Meets ArtBy WILLIAM VAN METERMARCH 12, 2014Extraits:“I don’t know what to do until I meet them,” the photographer Collier Schorr said of working with models. “Who are you? I’m going to take that picture.”It was a late-February night, and Ms. Schorr was at the opening of “8 Women,” her 10th exhibition at the 303 Gallery in Chelsea. Boyish in a plaid shirt and suit jacket, Alaïa lace-ups and a men’s vintage silver Rolex, she looked younger than her 50 years. Her slicked-back hair revealed hazel eyes.Ms. Schorr has made a career of skating between worlds, removing the boundaries of masculine and feminine and art and fashion. Her naturalistic work conveys an emotional or human truth, whether it’s in gallery shows or advertising campaigns for Bottega Veneta and Comme des Garçons. The aim of her fashion images never seems to be selling clothes. They’re about people, not just items to purchase.The works in “8 Women” are mostly photos she has been taking at fashion shoots since 1996, not that the viewer would notice. There are no garments that scream last season or images easily forgotten with a flick of a magazine page (although some are outtakes from publications like V and Pop). The portraits are contemplative and sensual. Many were made by piggybacking on a fashion shoot and asking the model to stay a few minutes afterward; some posed nude.“They aren’t stripped down to be consumed,” Ms. Schorr said. “They’re strong. They’re dressed even though they’re undressed.”In one photo, a model stands in a red skirt and bra. On the shelf behind her are books by Richard Prince and Richard Avedon. Sandwiched between them is one by Ms. Schorr. This was a subtle postproduction trick, to add her own.La suite sur: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/13/fashion/when-fashion-meets-art.html?action=click&#38;module=Search&#38;region=searchResults&#38;_r=0#0&#38;version=&#38;url=http://query.nytimes.com/search/sitesearch/?action=click&#38;region=Masthead&#38;pgtype=Homepage&#38;module=SearchSubmit&#38;contentCollection=Homepage&#38;t=qry176%23/william+van+meter/&#38;_r=0