Philip-Lorca diCorcia

The photography of Philip-Lorca diCorcia achieves a marvelous balance of artifice and the everyday. Over the past three decades, diCorcia has developed a unique and influential style, in which realistic, almost documentary style of representation is subverted or countered by visibly staged compositi [...]
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The photography of Philip-Lorca diCorcia achieves a marvelous balance of artifice and the everyday. Over the past three decades, diCorcia has developed a unique and influential style, in which realistic, almost documentary style of representation is subverted or countered by visibly staged composition. This combination of seemingly opposite qualities endows his images with a mysterious eeriness. In his "Hustlers" series (1990-1992), diCorcia made portraits of male prostitutes in minutely composed settings, and for "Heads" (2000-2001)-probably his most famous series-he depicted passersbys on the street in New York (who were oblivious to his photographing them) as though they were film stars. Alongside the series "Streetwork" (1993-1999), "Lucky 13" (2004) and "A Storybook Life" (1975-1999), this volume, published for a major European retrospective and produced in close collaboration with diCorcia, also feature works from his new and ongoing "East of Eden" project.
Philip-Lorca diCorcia was born in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1951. He received his MFA in Photography from Yale University in 1979. DiCorcia's work has been the subject of solo shows at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, the Centre National de la Photographie, Paris, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, among others. He has been named a Guggenheim Foundation Fellow and has received multiple grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. His work is included in the collections of the Bibliotheque Nationale de France, The Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, among others. His previous books include "A Storybook Life" (2003) "Thousand" (2007) and "Eleven" (2011). DiCorcia lives and works in New York City.