Anne collier photographer biography books

American visual artist

Anne Collier (born Los Angeles, )^[1] is an American visual artist working with appropriated photographic images. Describing Collier's work in Frieze art magazine, writer Brian Dillon said, "Collier uncouples the machinery of appropriation so that her found images seem weightless, holding their obvious meaning in abeyance."^[2]

Writing in The New York Times, Karen Rosenberg said "Anne Collier’s photographs of vintage books, album covers, posters and other ephemera, taken in an antiseptic white studio, look studiously detached at first.

But after some time they reveal themselves as sensitive and involved responses to an earlier generation's visual culture."^[3]

Education and career

In , Anne Collier received her BFA from the California Institute of the Arts, in Valencia, California.^[4] In Collier received her MFA at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

She currently lives and works in