Philip-Lorca diCorcia’s ‘Hollywood’ series has set a model for contemporary art photography.
The subjects of his photos are people he met in the street and asked to pose for a certain amount of money they had accorded.
The title of the image will tell you the name and the age of the person, the place he was born and how much the artist paid him for pose.
The picture above represents a naked young man from the waist upwards and shown through the window of a diner. What do we imagine?
And why is this young man posing without shirt for 25 dollars? It peraphs makes us think that he hasn’t much money and is using his body for a small profit. The experts suggests an association with the sex industry.
However he always encouraged a kind of story telling in the viewer’s mind inspiring an awarness of the psycology and emotions contained in real life situations.
His work can be described as documentary photography mixed with the fictional world of cinema and advertising wich create a powerful link between reality, fantasy and desire.
His use of light is always dramatic and often described as cinematic when creating a simulated naturalism.
A theatrical and psychological athmosphere is added by working in the particular time of the day of surise or sunset, when the combination of natural and artificial light encourages a dramatic sense of place and narrative.
I found his work inspiring and exeptionally original in the field of contemporary art.
Bibliography:
·A storybook life. Philip-Lorca DiCorcia. Santa Fe N.M 2004
· steidlville.com/books/530-Thousand.html
· lslimited.com/dicorcia/pl.html
·artscenecal.com/ArticlesFile/Archive/Articles
1997/Articles1097/PdiCorciaA.html
· en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip-Lorca_diCorcia
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