Philip-Lorca diCorcia: A Storybook Life

Publisher: Twin Palms Publishers

Publication Date: 2003

“The disparate photographs assembled here were made over the course of twenty years. None of them were originally intended to be used in this book. By ordering and shaping them I tried to investigate the possibilities of narrative both within a single image and especially in relation to the other photographs. A Storybook Life is an attempt to discover the possibilities of meaning in the interaction of seemingly unrelated images in the hope that content can constantly mutate according to both the external and internal condition of the viewer, but remain meaningful because of it’s inherent, but latent content. The conscious and subconscious decisions made in editing the photographs is the real work of A Storybook Life.”

_ Philip-Lorca diCorcia

Details

Publisher: Twin Palms Publishers

Artist: Philip-Lorca diCorcia

Publication Date: 2003

ISBN: 9781931885232

Retail: $95 US & Canada

Status: Not Available

Binding: Hardcover

Dimensions: 14 x 11 in (35.6 x 27.9 cm)

Pages: 160

Reproductions: 75 color

Artist and Contributors

Philip-Lorca diCorcia

American photographer Philip-Lorca diCorcia (b. 1951) emerged in the 1980s as part of a generation of photographers who sought to explore and challenge the boundaries of the medium. He has become known for his meticulously planned and executed photographs involving a variety of individuals in images that explore the tension between the casual and the posed, the accidental and the fated. At once documentary and theatrical, his work operates in the interstices of fact and fiction.

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