| Names: | Other: Philip-Lorca di Corcia
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| | Dates: | 1951 or 1953 (uncertain) - | | Active: | US | | Gender: | Male |
Contemporary American photographer.Preparing biographies
Biography provided by Focal Press
Representing a quintessential post-modern outlook, diCorcia meticulously photographs choreographed mundane and ambiguous scenes from daily life. Instead of capturing a moment, diCorcia reconfigures it and then permanently casts it. His strategy combines the documentary tradition with the fictional methods of advertising and cinema to fashion ironic links between reality, fantasy, and desire. His quiet, mysterious, cinematic narratives utilize saturated colors to create a psychological intensity, built by juxtaposing the spontaneity of the snapshot aesthetic with the formalism of a staged composition and the drama between artificial and natural lighting.
(Author: Robert Hirsch - Independent scholar and writer)
Michael Peres (Editor-in-Chief), 2007, Focal Encyclopedia of Photography, 4th edition, (Focal Press) [ISBN-10: 0240807405, ISBN-13: 978-0240807409]
(Used with permission)
Readings on, or by, individual photographers
diCorcia, P.-L., 2003, A Storybook Life, (Santa Fe, NM: Twin Palms Publishers) [Δ]
diCorcia, P.-L. and Galassi, P., 1995, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, (New York: Museum of Modern Art; distributed by Abrams) [Δ]
Freedman, Dennis (ed.) & diCorcia, Philip-Lorca, 2011, Philip-Lorca diCorcia: Eleven, (Freedman Damiani) isbn-10: 8862081677 isbn-13: 978-8862081672 [Δ]
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