Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
diCorcia's curation of "disparate photographs," from his early career to his first solo shows
In this volume, American photographer Philip-Lorca diCorcia presents a selection of his photographs from 1979 to 1995. diCorcia began his career staging his family and friends in tableaus resembling candid scenes. His later series, including Hustlers and Streetwork, are carefully constructed and dramatically lit, underscoring his lengthy yet deliberate process. Just as diCorcia plans and stages his photographs to blur the boundaries of truth and fiction, so too does he plan this assemblage "in the hope that content can constantly mutate according to both the external and internal condition of the viewer, but remain meaningful because of its inherent, but latent content."
Philip-Lorca diCorcia (born 1953) trained at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Yale University. He was awarded a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1989, which helped him create his well-known Hustlers series. He has received solo exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia and the Hepworth Wakefield. His photographs are in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Victoria & Albert Museum and others.
Synopsis
diCorcia's curation of "disparate photographs," from his early career to his first solo shows
"I want to make images that have open, narrative qualities, enough to suggest ideas about human limits. I want there to be a combination of the past juxtaposed with the modern. I use nature to symbolize the search, saving a tree, watering the earth. In this fabricated world, strange clouds of smog float by; there are holes in the sky. These mythic images mirror our world, where nature is domesticated, controlled and destroyed. Through my work I explore technology and a poetry of existence. These can be very heavy, overly didactic issues to convey in art, so I choose to portray them through a more theatrically absurd approach." --Robert ParkeHarrison (born 1968)