Philip Lorca-DiCorcia
Background:
Philip-Lorca DiCorcia became interested in photography in the 70s, and graduated from Yale University in 1979 with a Master of Fine Arts. By 1984, he was already a successful freelance photographer for many magazines including Fortune and Esquire. Now living in New York, DiCorcia’s current work borders somewhere between “pseudo-documentary and cinematic.” He works hard to combine candids with artificial light. He straddles a line between contriving and controlling an image and leaving it up it up to spontaneity.
Relation:
The artist I chose this week is Philip-Lorca DiCorcia, but I want to focus on one body of work in particular, DiCorcia’s “Heads” series. In this series, DiCorcia sticks with his usual style using a blend of street photography and portraiture. He sets up a strobe light in a specific spot on a New York City street and as the crowds go by, DiCorcia waits with a telephoto lens for that perfect moment. As a stranger unknowingly steps into the light, DiCorcia captures that perfect blend of planned and unplanned. This series really speaks to me not only because of it’s creative technique, but mainly because of how the final images look. In these images, the subjects have a perfect, crisp light on them while it appears to be nighttime around them and there is little detail in their surroundings. For my work in this class, I will be using a very similar lighting style in half of my images. I aim to have a crisp light, like DiCorcia, except use a warmer colored light to emulate a street light.
Quotes:
'I choose photographs where my presence is not important...Only a child looked at me once.'
'They think I'm violating their rights. Maybe I am.'
Source:
"Philip-Lorca diCorcia: choice, non-event and truth." Otur; Art and writing practice and theory. N.p., 04 Feb 2003. Web. 12 Sep 2010.
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