Philip-Lorca diCorcia est un photographe américain né en 1951, est connu à la fois pour sa série « Heads » dans laquelle il prend en photo des gens qui marchent dans la rue en les isolant de leur environnement en utilisant un flash et pour ses images de situations à la mise en scène soignée.
Ses photographies associent des éléments du style artistique documentaire avec un principe de construction maîtrisée et complexe propre à l'image de fiction.
Philip-Lorca diCorcia commence à s'intéresser à la photographie dans les années 1970 au début desquelles il étudie la photographie à l'université d'Hartford. Il est diplômé de la "School of the Museum of Fine Arts" de Boston en 1975 et entre dans le programme de formation en photographie en deux ans de l'université Yale à New Haven en 1979.
Après s'être intéressé à la photographie conceptuelle de son époque, diCorcia, pendant sa formation à Yale, hérite de deux approches habituellement opposées de la photographie.
Une approche soutenue par la tradition documentaire américaine issue, entre autres de photographes comme Walker Evans ou Robert Frank, selon laquelle même si la photographie documentaire est bien reconnue comme étant un style artistique, il s'agit d'un style basé sur l'idée que la photographie serait un médium qui permettrait une transposition directe de la réalité telle qu'elle est, en images. Cette conception de la photographie tend à considérer que la réalité et sa représentation sont en adéquation parfaite.
Mais, au-delà de cette approche de la photographie, diCorcia hérite également d'une approche de la photographie comme médium aux nombreuses possibilités créatives. Il est particulièrement influencé par l'esthétique de l'image publicitaire mais aussi par certains aspects de l'image cinématographique. Selon Peter Galassi, si diCorcia adopte le vocabulaire de la photographie commerciale, il ne s'agit pas pour lui de juger cette dernière mais de la reconnaître comme une partie intégrante de son expérience.
1951 Born in Hartford, Connecticut, USA
1975 School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Diploma
1976 School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Post Graduate Certificate
1979 Yale University, New Haven, M.F.A.
Lives and works in New York
Expositions sélectionnées
2008 ‘Philip-Lorca diCorcia', Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California, USA. (solo)
2008 ‘Photographie : détrônera la peinture', Musée de la photographie, Chalonsur-Saône, France (solo)
2008 Baby. De ideale mens verbeeld 1840- heden, Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam
2008 diCorcia - Epstein - Shore, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels
2007 Mapping the City, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam
2007 ‘Early Works', galerie Monika Sprüth philomene Magers, Munich, Germany (solo)
2007 ‘Philip-Lorca diCorcia', The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, USA (solo)
2006 ‘Lucky 13 & Hustlers', FOAM Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands (solo)
2006 Die Jugend von heute, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt/Main
2005 Willing Suspension of Disbelief, Wilkinson Gallery, London (England)
2005 ‘Lucky 13', PaceMcGill, New York, NY, USA. (solo)
2005 ‘Hollywood and new series', Galerie Almine Rech, Paris, France (solo)
2005 ‘Philip-Lorca diCorcia', Gagosian Gallery, London, England, UK (solo)
2005 ‘Philip-Lorca diCorcia', Monika Sprüth & Philomene Magers Gallery,Cologne, Germany (solo)
2005 Galleria Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice, Italy. (solo)
2004 ‘Philip-Lorca diCorcia', Magasin 3, Stockholm Kunsthall, Stockholm, Sweden (solo)
2004 Galleria Monica de Cardenas, Milano, Italy (solo)
2004 Museum Folkwang Essen, Germany (solo)
2004 Monica DeCardenas, Milan, Italy
2004 Helga de Alvear, Madrid, Spain (solo)
2004 Centre National de la Photographie, Paris (solo)
2003 - 2004 ‘A storybook life', PaceWildenstein, New York, NY (solo)
2003 - 2004 Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, England: traveling to Centre National de la Photographie, Paris, France; Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany; Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa,Venice, Italy; Magasin 3, Stockholm Konsthall; Centro de Arte Visuais, Coimbra, Portugal.
2003 - 2004 Fundacion Telefonica, PhotoEspaña, Madrid, Spain
2003 Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, England, UK (solo)
2002 Barbara Krakow, Boston, MA, USA. (solo)
2002 Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Livornostraat, Brussels, Belgium (solo)
2002 Monica De Cardenas, Milan, Italy (solo)
2001 PaceWildenstein, New York, USA (solo)
2001 Galerie Monika Sprüth Philomene Magers, München, Germany (solo)
2001 Gagosian Gallery, London, Great Britain (solo)
2001 Settings and Players: Theatrical Ambiguity in American Photography, White Cube2, London, Great Britain
2001 ‘Work for hire', Galerie Almine Rech, Paris, France. (solo)
2001 Galerie Spruth Monika & Philomene Magers, Munich, Germany. (solo)
2001 Galerie PaceWildenstein, New York, NY, USA (solo)
2000 Galerie PaceWildenstein, New York, NY, USA (solo)
2000 Open City: Street Photographs since 1950, Museum of Modern Art Oxford, Great Britain
2000 Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany (solo)
2000 Lawing Gallery, Houston, USA (solo)
2000 Galeria OMR, Mexico City, Mexico (solo)
1999 PaceWildenstein, New York, USA (solo)
1999 Galerie Almine Rech, Paris, France (solo)
1999 Art Space Ginza, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
1998 Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Bruxelles, Belgium (solo)
1998 Streetwork, Galerie Klemens Gasser und Tanja Grunert, Köln, Germany (solo)
1998 Hollywood Pictures, 1990-92, PaceWildenstein, Los Angeles, USA (solo)
The photographer Philip-Lorca diCorcia is best known for his elaborately staged scenes made to look like real life, in which he meticulously plans every element of a shot-lighting, pose, etc, before taking the photograph, creating the "ur" moment. This is conceptual photography with the veneer of the documentary. As such, his photographs have been integral to contemporary dialogues on street photography, portraiture and constructed versus spontaneous tableaus. His most recent body of work, titled Heads, is a departure from this method. Setting up shop in New York City, diCorcia took unstaged pictures of passers by that follow in the street photography tradition of Paul Strand, Walker Evans, Harry Callahan and Robert Frank. DiCorcia's work helps to redefine the genre, bringing street photography into our postmod...
One of the seminal artists of contemporary photography, Philip-Lorca diCorcia produces work that exists on a wide spectrum of fictionalized documentary. Yet a thematic and conceptual unity, most often realized in serial form and particularly suited to monograph format marks each series in his oeuvre.
With Thousand, diCorcia effectively inverts his own tendency: the monograph is now the work itself. The sheer volume of material, which spans over 20 years of personal and artistic creation, shifts notions of context, narrative, and individual perception.
Flipping through the pages of Thousand is not so much a retrospective or summation of the artist's life as it is an exercise in the construction of memory. An unwashed pan soaking in the sink precedes an unknown woman resembling an odalisque; the familiar linoleum ais...
Broché: 2008 pages
Editeur : Steidl Publishing (mai 2007)
Langue : Anglais
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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 nearl...
The Association of International Photography Art Dealers (AIPAD) will hold the 32nd edition of The AIPAD Photography Show New York, one of the world’s most important annual photography events, at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City.
Seventy-five of the world’s leading fine art photography galleries will present a wide range of museum-quality work, including contemporary, modern, and 19th-century photographs, as well as photo-based art, video, and new media. The AIPAD Photography Show New York is the longest running and foremost exhibition of fine art photography. The Show will commence with an opening night gala on March 28, 2012, to benefit inMotion, which provides free legal services to low-income women.
AIPAD 2012 will present four new member exhibitors: David Zwirner, New York; Sasha Wo...
« Pour sa 2ème édition, le festival DIEP, fort de son succès en 2010, continue son exploration du territoire et de l’histoire de la région dieppoise. Le Modernisme, comme l’Impressionnisme, constitue une période florissante de la ville et de ses alentours; en effet, au début du siècle dernier, Dieppe est un port important, une destination touristique majeure, une cité dynamique. L’urbanisme de la ville est repensé, et une large place est accordée aux architectes modernistes, tant dans les constructions publiques que privées. L’ambition du festival réside à la fois dans la mise en lumière de ce patrimoine et dans un questionnement sur l’héritage de ce mouvement. Le Modernisme nous...
For over thirty years, the New York Times Magazine has presented the myriad possibilities and applications of photography. The New York Times Magazine Photographs is an exhibition that reflects upon and interrogates the very nature of both photography and print magazines at this pivotal moment in their history and evolution.
The exhibition is cocurated by Kathy Ryan, longtime Photo Editor of the Magazine, and Lesley A. Martin, Publisher of Aperture Books. The Aperture-produced exhibition is comprised of eleven individual modules, each of which focuses on a notable project or series of projects that have been presented in the pages of the Magazine.
The featured projects mirror the Magazine's eclecticism, presenting seminal examples of reportage, portraiture, as well as fine art photography. Using visual ...
For over thirty years, the New York Times Magazine has presented the myriad possibilities and applications of photography. The New York Times Magazine Photographs is an exhibition that reflects upon and interrogates the very nature of both photography and print magazines at this pivotal moment in their history and evolution.
The exhibition is cocurated by Kathy Ryan, longtime Photo Editor of the Magazine, and Lesley A. Martin, Publisher of Aperture Books. The Aperture-produced exhibition is comprised of eleven individual modules, each of which focuses on a notable project or series of projects that have been presented in the pages of the Magazine. The featured projects mirror the Magazine’s eclecticism, presenting seminal examples of reportage, portraiture, as well as fine art photography. Using visual mate...
In recent years, television’s «reality» shows and talent competitions, along with Web-based social media, have pioneered new models of cultural participation that offer people a conflicted chance at fame. At the same time, governments worldwide have asserted vast new powers of surveillance, putting unwitting «participants» on an entirely different stage. Against this backdrop, The Talent Show, examines a range of complicated relationships that have emerged between artists, audiences, and participants in light of the competing desires for notoriety and privacy that mark our present cultural moment. For almost half a century, artists have modeled and exploited these desires and dramatized the complex dynamics that surround them, often engaging people to participate in their work—both ...
Curators: Richard Julin, Elisabeth Millqvist, Tessa Praun
The fall of 2010 marks the opening of the unprecedented exhibition 'Thrice upon a time.' This is the largest exhibition to date with artworks taken exclusively from the Magasin 3 collection. It is presented in three parallel chapters featuring a total of 202 works, all of which have not previously been shown at Magasin 3. 66 artists ranging from Absalon to Zetterquist fill the exhibition spaces with photography, drawing, painting, film and sculpture. Key works by established artists are shown alongside pieces by artists who have not previously exhibited in Sweden. Together these works give an unsurpassable insight into the Magasin 3 collection.
In the three different parts curators Elisabeth Millqvist, Tessa Praun and Richard Julin each present their...
Exposed presents over two hundred photographic works, from the late nineteenth century to the present day, offering an illuminating and provocative perspective on subjects both iconic and taboo.
Images selected are by well-known artists and photo-journalists, as well as amateur photographers and those using automated technologies such as CCTV. Among the key issues will be the power struggle between those with the authority over image production (artists, authors or the state) and the rights and desires of individuals. This relationship is under increasing pressure,both from the escalating use of surveillance, and the advance of small, portable digital cameras in mobile phones.
Includes work by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Walker Evans, Robert Frank, Nan Goldin, Dorothea Lange, Paul Strand and ...
Presenting all of the Boston Group active artists: David Armstrong, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Nan Goldin, Jack Pierson, Tabboo! Gail Thacker and Shellburne Thurber.
Since the mid 1970's, a group of American East Coast artists started defying the conventions of the photographic medium both from its technical and moral aspects, hence greatly influencing the means of representation during the late 20th century. The defence of veracity manifested itself through an unknown degree of exposed privacy by exposing socially non-legitimised ways of life, such as night-time characters, marginal lives, addictions, affections, sexual experiences and the genre or irruption of new models of social conformation. Its fundamental contribution consists in turning uneventful motives into interesting narratives, which up until then had not be...
CEH “Manej” (Manejnaia area, 1)
Presented by the artist, David Zwirner (New York), Gallery Sprueth Magers (Berlin-London)
Supported by Société Générale Vostok Bank...