Philip-Lorca diCorcia
Year born:
1951
Location:
Hartford, CT
American photographer Philip-Lorca diCorcia’s unflinching portraits of people in urban settings, while utterly realistic, have the feel of staged film scenes. For diCorcia, photography eludes and reveals at the same time, rendering the viewer both active witness and scene narrator. His most recent body of work, Heads, is a series of portraits taken in New York City. The images evoke the street photography tradition of Paul Strand, Walker Evans, Harry Callahan, and Robert Frank.