Philip-Lorca diCorcia was born in 1953 at Harford in Connecticut in the United States. His artistic style spanned being a photographer, producing fictionalized documentary, exploring context and perception, depicting contemporary urban street life and using flash and artificial lighting to add color and rich detail. diCorcia’s work had become noticeably facile in nature in the 1980s, portrayed through images that seemed to be snapshots taken on impulse, but were really friends and family in staged interior montages. He had shifted base to the streets of Hollywood by the late 1980s and early 1990s. Subsequently, he moved to Berlin, Rome, London, New York, Calcutta and Tokyo. In these cities he photographed scenes of modern urban life. His pictures featured prostitutes, drug addicts, bystanders, vagrants and male transvestites. This time as well, what seemed to be photographs were frequently intricate stage settings. His fictionalized documentary technique solicits his observers to come to a decision on his images of the the seemingly day to day stuff, whether they are real or fantasy. Philip-Lorca diCorcia’s works of art include: Igor produced in 1987 part of the collection at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.; Ralph Smith; 27-Years-Old at Ft. Lauderdale, Florida... show more

Philip-Lorca diCorcia was born in 1953 at Harford in Connecticut in the United States. His artistic style spanned being a photographer, producing fictionalized documentary, exploring context and perception, depicting contemporary urban street life and using flash and artificial lighting to add color and rich detail. diCorcia’s work had become noticeably facile in nature in the 1980s, portrayed through images that seemed to be snapshots taken on impulse, but were really friends and family in staged interior montages. He had shifted base to the streets of Hollywood by the late 1980s and early 1990s. Subsequently, he moved to Berlin, Rome, London, New York, Calcutta and Tokyo. In these cities he photographed scenes of modern urban life. His pictures featured prostitutes, drug addicts, bystanders, vagrants and male transvestites. This time as well, what seemed to be photographs were frequently intricate stage settings. His fictionalized documentary technique solicits his observers to come to a decision on his images of the the seemingly day to day stuff, whether they are real or fantasy. Philip-Lorca diCorcia’s works of art include: Igor produced in 1987 part of the collection at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.; Ralph Smith; 27-Years-Old at Ft. Lauderdale, Florida produced between 1990 and 1992 part of the collection at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.; London produced in 1995 part of the collection at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
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