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PHILIP-LORCA DICORCIA (American, b. 1953) NEW YORK signed on verso chromogenic color print 30 x...

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PHILIP-LORCA DICORCIA (American, b. 1953) NEW YORK signed on verso chromogenic color print 30 x...
PHILIP-LORCA DICORCIA (American, b. 1953) NEW YORK signed on verso chromogenic color print 30 x 40 in. (76.2 x 101.6 cm) 1993 this print is from an edition of 20 PROVENANCE Pace/MacGill Gallery, NEW YORK Private Collection, CALIFORNIA LITERATURE Peter Galassi, PHILIP-LORCA DICORCIA, New York, 1995, p. 47 (illustrated) Dörte Zbikowski, F.C.Gundlach et al, EMOTIONS AND RELATIONS: NAN GOLDIN, DAVID ARMSTRONG, MARK MORRISROE, JACK PIERSON, PHILIP-LORCA DICORCIA, Cologne, 1998, p. 189 (illustrated) Thomas Weski, PHILIP-lORCA DICORCIA: STREETWORK, Hannover, 2000, n.p. (illustrated) The present work belongs to diCorcia's early series of street scenes, taken in urban centers around the world. This image captures several pedestrians and gives them new meaning as a group. The viewer is left to wonder whether this photograph depicts reality or a staged fabrication. Thomas Weski describes diCorcia's style in STREETWORK: "His photographs are rather the result of a patient wait for the right situation and the decisive movement, which are defined by the photographer's artistic concept." Taken during the day, and through the supplemental use of artificial lighting, diCorcia creates a unique effect, essentially placing the subjects in the photograph on display. diCorcia explained in Planet Magazine in 2001, "I don't think anybody needs to be told that urban life is alienating. Urban places are enormously lonely despite the fact that they are crowded. They have that contradiction. I think it's much easier to be isolated in a city like New York than it is a small town. That sense of isolation is compounded by the fact that every time you go out, there are probably a hundred people looking at you and looking right through you. In some way I secretly photograph these people. I am sort of registering their existence" (Summer 2001 edition).
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