American photographer Philip-Lorca diCorcia plays with the connections between documentary and staged photography. The artist, who was born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1953, has exhibited images that seem to have been captured effortlessly, yet have taken hours to choreograph. In one instance, a shot of his brother reaching into a refrigerator was staged over and over again, in an attempt to feign the appearance of real life. At the other end of the spectrum, diCorcia's recent series, "Heads", which features vignettes of people on the streets of New York, was created instantly as the pedestrians unwittingly passed his strobe lights. The images in this recent series appear to have been painstakingly composed. He is interested in the concepts of alienation in a large crowd, vulnerability, and the loss of innocence inherent in the young people he encounters. diCorcia teaches at Yale, where he received his MFA in 1979.
www.lacma.org/art/ExhibdiCorcia.aspx
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www.davidzwirner.com/artist/115/
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Paul Thulin has read your blog up to this point/entry.
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