Philip-Lorca diCorcia

"What is distinctive, and essential to grasping the originality of diCorcia's work, is the degree to which he showed sympathetic curiosity for two divergent understandings of photography. The one, taking the impersonal power of popular and commercial culture as a given, approached photography as a realm of fiction and duplicity. The other, devoted to the authenticity of individual perceptions, approached photography as a way of interpreting experience. In the 1980's as that divergence evolved into open opposition, diCorcia was making art in the gap between the two."

Peter Galassi, excerpted from Philip-Lorca diCorcia.

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Philip-Lorca diCorcia Artwork by Philip-Lorca diCorcia. Text by Peter Galassi. Back in Print! Philip-Lorca diCorcia's inventively staged and exquisitely crafted color photographs occupy a special place in contemporary art. Operating in the gap between postmodern fiction and documentary fact, between slick
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THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, NEW YORK
ISBN: 9780870701450
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Philip-Lorca diCorcia: Eleven Edited by Dennis Freedman. Interview by Jeff Rian. Between 1997 and 2008, Philip-Lorca diCorcia completed 11 photographic portfolios in collaboration with W magazine's creative director Dennis Freedman. In their epic scope and visual luxuriance, these enigmatic and glamour-soaked photographic
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FREEDMAN DAMIANI
ISBN: 9788862081672
$70.00 | In stock

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Philip-Lorca diCorcia on press with Eleven

In celebration of Philip-Lorca diCorcia's genre-redefining work in fashion photography, and coinciding with New York Fashion Week, photographs from Eleven, diCorcia's highly anticipated book of photographs realized for W magazine while Dennis Freedman was creative director, will be on view at David Zwirner gallery from February 10 through March 5.DiCorcia will sign copies of the book at the gallery (519 West 19th Street, between 10th and 11th) on Saturday, February 12, from 4 to 6 pm. Please continue to our blog to see pictures of diCorcia, Freedman and Andrea Albertini, publisher of the Damiani imprint, on press in Bologna.
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Philip-Lorca diCorcia

Featured image, shot in Cairo, Egypt, for W, is by Philip-Lorca diCorcia, who produced 11 major fashion editorials for the magazine between 1997 and 2008, while Dennis Freedman was creative director. "In Cairo, we wanted real people to play out a Montague versus Capulet division, based along the religious, ethnic, and economic faults within Egyptian society," diCorcia says in conversation with Jeff Rian in the introduction to Philip-Lorca diCorcia: Eleven, from which this image is reproduced. "We wound up casting most of the models from Facebook..."

Philip-Lorca diCorcia: Eleven

W Stories 1997-2008

Edited by Dennis Freedman. Interview by Jeff Rian.
Published by Freedman Damiani

Between 1997 and 2008, Philip-Lorca diCorcia completed 11 photographic portfolios in collaboration with W magazine's creative director Dennis Freedman. In their epic scope and visual luxuriance, these enigmatic and glamour-soaked photographic narratives stand as one of the most ambitious editorial projects of the last decade. DiCorcia and Freedman traveled the globe to make these stories, deploying fabulous locations ranging from a Lautner house in Los Angeles and the Mariinsky Opera House in St. Petersburg to Windows on the World at the top of the World Trade Center and a notorious "club échangiste" (swinger's club) in Paris. The cast of characters included iconic models Nadja Auermann, Guinevere van Seenus, Kristen McMenamy, Karen Elson, Shalom Harlow and Hannelore Knuts, the actress Isabelle Huppert, the designer Marc Jacobs plus people cast on location. DiCorcia's fashion stories are collected for the first time in this superbly designed monograph, and reveal themselves as a masterpiece of staged photography and photographic storytelling.
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) and Thousand (2007), a collection of Polaroids that was exhibited at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. DiCorcia lives and works in New York City.

Philip-Lorca diCorcia

Artwork by Philip-Lorca diCorcia. Text by Peter Galassi.
Published by The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Back in Print! Philip-Lorca diCorcia's inventively staged and exquisitely crafted color photographs occupy a special place in contemporary art. Operating in the gap between postmodern fiction and documentary fact, between slick convention and fresh perception, they deliver a powerful emotional charge. The 55 color plates in this book, dating from 1978 to 1994, trace the evolution of a compelling and influential body of work. Beginning with enigmatic domestic scenarios whose protagonists are the photographer's family and friends, diCorcia moved on to an ambitious series in which Hollywood drifters and hustlers are pictured as emblematic figures of contemporary America. He proceeded to deploy his probing curiosity amid the energy and turmoil of big-city streets, reinvigorating a rich photographic tradition that had been dormant for nearly a generation.