Karen Knorr (1954 – )
Karen Knorr was born in Frankfurt am Maim and studied at the Polytechnic of Central London. She uses photography to investigate western cultural traditions, the work here is from the series Academies which explores the relationship between the production of art and its consumption. Her work is carefully staged using students and life models set in locations from the gentlemen’s clubs of St James in London to the anatomy lecture theatre at Uppsala University, Sweden..