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Philip-Lorca Dicorcia

Philip-Lorca Dicorcia is an American street photographer born in 1951 who studied photography at the University of Hartford and Yale University. He is known for staged photographs that appear candid, combining both staged compositions and informal shots of people in urban environments. His work has been exhibited widely in museums around the world and focuses on illuminating unintended facial expressions and movements through elaborate lighting techniques.

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Philip-Lorca Dicorcia

Philip-Lorca Dicorcia is an American street photographer born in 1951 who studied photography at the University of Hartford and Yale University. He is known for staged photographs that appear candid, combining both staged compositions and informal shots of people in urban environments. His work has been exhibited widely in museums around the world and focuses on illuminating unintended facial expressions and movements through elaborate lighting techniques.

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PHILIP-LORCA

DICORCIA
By: Blanca Montes
BIOGRAPHY
● Philip-Lorca Dicorcia is an American street photographer. He was born in
1951 in Hartford, Connecticut.
● He studied photography at the University of Hartford in the 1970s. Later
he studied at Boston’s School of the Museum of Fine Arts and at Yale
University where he received a Master of Fine Arts in Photography in
1979.
● He has shown solo exhibitions at The Museum of Modern Art in New
York, the Centre National de la Photographie in Paris, and the Reina Sofía
in Madrid.
● He currently lives in New York City and teaches at Yale University.
HIS WORK
● He takes pictures in real life situations. He combines staged compositions
and informal shots.
● He started taking pictures to his family and friends that appear candid but
had hours of staging and elaborated lightning techniques.
● Then, he started taking pictures of random people in urban places such as
New York, Tokyo, Berlin…
● He used lights to illuminate the subject.
● He shot pictures of unintended facial expressions and movements.
HIS WORK
● His work has been shown in exhibitions in the US and Europe since 1977.
● 1980 - He received the national Endowment for the Arts Fellowship award
● 1985 - He did his first Solo show. Since then all his Solos are in important
museums around the world such as Museum of Modern Art in New York,
Centre National de la Photographie in Paris, Museo Nacional Centro de
Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid and other.
● 1989 - He started working on his project Hustlers helped by the National
Endowment for the arts that gave him a fellowship of $45,000.
HIS WORK
● 1993 - 25 photos of his project were shown at the Museum of Modern art.
Each photo was labeled with the subject’s name, age, hometown and the
money they charge. The exposition was titled the Strangers.
● 1998 - He received the infinity Award for Applied Photography from
International center of Photography.
● 2003 - His work was in Tate Museum‘s exhibition, Cruel and Tender.
● 2011 - Sprüth Magers London showed a series of his Polaroids.
MY EMULATIONS
MY EMULATIONS

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