Philip-Lorca diCorcia

(American, born 1951)

Philip-Lorca diCorcia is an American photographer whose work encompasses both documentary and staged photography, lending his large-scale color prints a narrative mixture of truth and fiction. “I think it’s a sense of disappointment after realizing that most of the time they’re being lied to,” diCorcia has observed of his audience’s reaction to ambiguous nature of his photographs. “And what medium has a stronger relationship to people’s idea of the truth than one that is supposed to be an accurate representation of reality?” His cinematic approach echoes Gregory Crewdson’s methodology, wherein the artist prepares the shots as if they were scenes in a film, as seen in his series Hustlers. The “dramatizing elements,” as the artist calls them, are what gives his images their narrative power: his subjects are performers whose interior self can differ greatly from their projected selves. Born in 1951 in Hartford, CT, diCorcia studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and received his MFA in 1979 from Yale University. The Museum of Modern Art in New York organized his first solo museum exhibition in 1993, and 20 years later, he was the subject of a major retrospective survey organized by the Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt. He currently lives and works in New York, NY. DiCorcia’s works are held in the collections of the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Tate Gallery in London, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, among others.

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Philip-Lorca diCorcia (577 results)
W, September 1997 #9, 1997

Philip-Lorca diCorcia

W, September 1997 #9, 1997

Sale Date: October 25, 2016

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W, September 1997 #3, 1997

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W, September 1997 #3, 1997

Sale Date: October 6, 2016

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Mexico City, 1998

Philip-Lorca diCorcia

Mexico City, 1998

Sale Date: October 5, 2016

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W, September 1997, #8, 1997

Philip-Lorca diCorcia

W, September 1997, #8, 1997

Sale Date: May 18, 2016

Auction Closed

William Charles Everlove, 26 years old, , 1990–1992

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William Charles Everlove, 26 years old, , 1990–1992

Sale Date: April 17, 2016

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Eddie Anderson, 21 years old, Houston, Texas, $20

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Eddie Anderson, 21 years old, Houston, Texas, $20

Sale Date: April 4, 2016

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Emma and Naomi, from A Storybook Life, 1992

Philip-Lorca diCorcia

Emma and Naomi, from A Storybook Life, 1992

Sale Date: April 26, 2016

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LOS ANGELES (FROM STREETWORK), 1992

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LOS ANGELES (FROM STREETWORK), 1992

Sale Date: April 3, 2016

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W, MARCH 2000, #12 (FROM CUBA LIBRE), 2000

Philip-Lorca diCorcia

W, MARCH 2000, #12 (FROM CUBA LIBRE), 2000

Sale Date: April 3, 2016

Auction Closed

W, MARCH 2000, #14 (FROM CUBA LIBRE), 2000

Philip-Lorca diCorcia

W, MARCH 2000, #14 (FROM CUBA LIBRE), 2000

Sale Date: April 3, 2016

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Sin (1), 2004

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Sin (1), 2004

Sale Date: April 6, 2016

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Ike Cole, 38 years old; Los Angeles,..., 1990–1992

Philip-Lorca diCorcia

Ike Cole, 38 years old; Los Angeles,..., 1990–1992

Sale Date: April 6, 2016

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Tim, 27 years old; Orange County,..., 1990

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Tim, 27 years old; Orange County,..., 1990

Sale Date: April 6, 2016

Auction Closed

LOS ANGELES, 1998

Philip-Lorca diCorcia

LOS ANGELES, 1998

Sale Date: February 18, 2016

Auction Closed

Tokyo, from the series Streetwork, 1994

Philip-Lorca diCorcia

Tokyo, from the series Streetwork, 1994

Sale Date: November 25, 2015

Auction Closed

W. September, #13, 1999

Philip-Lorca diCorcia

W. September, #13, 1999

Sale Date: November 13, 2015

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Mario, 1978

Philip-Lorca diCorcia

Mario, 1978

Sale Date: November 12, 2015

Auction Closed

Los Angeles, 1994

Philip-Lorca diCorcia

Los Angeles, 1994

Sale Date: November 6, 2015

Auction Closed

Ike Cole, 38 years old, Los Angeles,..., 1991–1992

Philip-Lorca diCorcia

Ike Cole, 38 years old, Los Angeles,..., 1991–1992

Sale Date: October 8, 2015

Auction Closed

New York, 1996

Philip-Lorca diCorcia

New York, 1996

Sale Date: October 8, 2015

Auction Closed

TOKYO (SCHOOLGIRL), 1999

Philip-Lorca diCorcia

TOKYO (SCHOOLGIRL), 1999

Sale Date: September 29, 2015

Auction Closed

MEXICO CITY, 1998

Philip-Lorca diCorcia

MEXICO CITY, 1998

Sale Date: September 29, 2015

Auction Closed

Head #6, 2000

Philip-Lorca diCorcia

Head #6, 2000

Sale Date: June 29, 2015

Auction Closed

W, September #3, 1997

Philip-Lorca diCorcia

W, September #3, 1997

Sale Date: June 29, 2015

Auction Closed

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