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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 its inherent but latent content The conscious and subconscious decisions made in editing the photographs is the real work of A Storybook Life PhilipLorca diCorcia
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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 its inherent but latent content The conscious and subconscious decisions made in editing the photographs is the real work of A Storybook Life PhilipLorca diCorcia
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City scenes have been chronicled in photographs since the early 1800s but street photography as traditionally defined has captured a relatively narrow field of these images Revolutionizing the history of street photography Unfamiliar Streets explores the work of Richard Avedon 19232004 Charles Moore 19312010 Martha Rosler b 1943 and PhilipLorca diCorcia b 1951 four American photographers whose careers in fashion photojournalism conceptual art and contemporary art are not usually associated with the genre nbsp Bussards lively and engaging text a timely response to a growing interest in urban photography challenges the traditional understanding of street photography and makes original and important connections among urban culture social history and the visual arts constructing a new historical model for understanding street photography Illustrated with more than one hundred images this book provides an interpretation of a compelling genre that is as fresh as its consideration of the city streets themselves sites of commerce dispossession desire demonstration power and spectacle
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The photographer PhilipLorca diCorcia is best known for his elaborately staged scenes made to look like real life in which he meticulously plans every element of a shotlighting pose etc before taking the photograph creating the ur moment This is conceptual photography with the veneer of the documentary As such his photographs have been integral to contemporary dialogues on street photography portraiture and constructed versus spontaneous tableaus His most recent body of work titled Heads is a departure from this method Setting up shop in New York City diCorcia took unstaged pictures of passers by that follow in the street photography tradition of Paul Strand Walker Evans Harry Callahan and Robert Frank DiCorcias work helps to redefine the genre bringing street photography into our postmodern world
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The photographer PhilipLorca diCorcia is best known for his elaborately staged scenes made to look like real life in which he meticulously plans every element of a shotlighting pose etc before taking the photograph creating the ur moment This is conceptual photography with the veneer of the documentary As such his photographs have been integral to contemporary dialogues on street photography portraiture and constructed versus spontaneous tableaus His most recent body of work titled Heads is a departure from this method Setting up shop in New York City diCorcia took unstaged pictures of passers by that follow in the street photography tradition of Paul Strand Walker Evans Harry Callahan and Robert Frank DiCorcias work helps to redefine the genre bringing street photography into our postmodern world
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Between 1990 and 1992 PhilipLorca diCorcia funded by a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship made multiple trips to Los Angeles to scout locations invent scenarios and to find male prostitutes that would agree to pose for his camera The last task proved to be the easiest diCorcia simply used his fellowship money to pay the men whatever price they charged for their most typical service and ultimately prompted a complaint of misuse of government funds In 1993 21 selected images were initially exhibited at The Museum of Modern Art marking PhilipLorca diCorcias first solo exhibition The show entitled Strangers was accompanied by a museum catalog Twenty years later steidldangin publishes the series in its entirety Hustlers is an empathetic yet melancholic poem of the Hollywood dream gone wrong prescribing to the heavilystaged pictorialism and happenstance of street casting for which diCorcia is most widely recognized Knowing precisely what he wanted from each photograph and fearful of police involvement diCorcia would prearrange all settings this motel room that vacant lot in between cars in a fastfood restaurantthe narrative was always deliberate From the moment diCorcia approached a potential subject usually around Santa Monica Boulevard in Hollywood to the completion of the shoot seldom more than one hour had passed The titles of these encounters amplify the factsfor example Ralph Smith 21 years old Ft Lauderdale Florida and 25
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Back in Print PhilipLorca diCorcias inventively staged and exquisitely crafted color photographs occupy a special place in contemporary art Operating in the gap between postmodern fiction and documentary fact between slick convention and fresh perception they deliver a powerful emotional charge The 55 color plates in this book dating from 1978 to 1994 trace the evolution of a compelling and influential body of work Beginning with enigmatic domestic scenarios whose protagonists are the photographers family and friends diCorcia moved on to an ambitious series in which Hollywood drifters and hustlers are pictured as emblematic figures of contemporary America He proceeded to deploy his probing curiosity amid the energy and turmoil of bigcity streets reinvigorating a rich photographic tradition that had been dormant for nearly a generation
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Back in Print PhilipLorca diCorcias inventively staged and exquisitely crafted color photographs occupy a special place in contemporary art Operating in the gap between postmodern fiction and documentary fact between slick convention and fresh perception they deliver a powerful emotional charge The 55 color plates in this book dating from 1978 to 1994 trace the evolution of a compelling and influential body of work Beginning with enigmatic domestic scenarios whose protagonists are the photographers family and friends diCorcia moved on to an ambitious series in which Hollywood drifters and hustlers are pictured as emblematic figures of contemporary America He proceeded to deploy his probing curiosity amid the energy and turmoil of bigcity streets reinvigorating a rich photographic tradition that had been dormant for nearly a generation
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PhilipLorca diCorcia is among the most innovative and influential photographers working today For nearly 30 years he has explored the intersection of documentary style with cinematic production making contemporary work that perches uncannily between the fictional and the real This survey of diCorcias career from the late1970s to the present draws from the artists most acclaimed series including Hustlers Streetworks Heads A Storybook Life and Lucky 13 In work from the 1980s diCorcia shows friends and family in domestic tableaux tinged with an air of mystery working from the subject matter of his life but eschewing romantic intimacy for studied detachment and pitchperfect detail In the 1990s he turns to the great American tradition of street photography That swiftlychanging environment might have seemed unlikely for diCorcias meticulous style but it provided some of his bestknown images including those of male prostitutes and anonymous crowds of urban pedestrians In more recent work he has photographed erotic pole dancers their bodies caught in contorted and seductive freefall The accompanying texts here include a piece by the New York writer and critic Lynne Tillman author of the acclaimed 2006 novel American Genius A Comedy
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Between 1997 and 2008 PhilipLorca diCorcia completed 11 photographic portfolios in collaboration with W magazines creative director Dennis Freedman In their epic scope and visual luxuriance these enigmatic and glamoursoaked photographic narratives stand as one of the most ambitious editorial projects of the last decade DiCorcia and Freedman traveled the globe to make these stories deploying fabulous locations ranging from a Lautner house in Los Angeles and the Mariinsky Opera House in St Petersburg to Windows on the World at the top of the World Trade Center and a notorious club échangiste swingers club in Paris The cast of characters included iconic models Nadja Auermann Guinevere van Seenus Kristen McMenamy Karen Elson Shalom Harlow and Hannelore Knuts the actress Isabelle Huppert the designer Marc Jacobs plus people cast on location DiCorcias fashion stories are collected for the first time in this superbly designed monograph and reveal themselves as a masterpiece of staged photography and photographic storytellingPhilipLorca diCorcia was born in Hartford Connecticut in 1951 He received his MFA in Photography from Yale University in 1979 DiCorcias work has been the subject of solo shows at The Museum of Modern Art New York the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston the Centre National de la Photographie Paris Whitechapel Art Gallery London and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia Madrid among others He has been named a Guggenheim Foundation Fellow and has received multiple grants from the National Endowment for the Arts His work is included in the collections of the Bibliotheque Nationale de France The Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art among others His previous books include A Storybook Life 2003 and Thousand 2007 a collection of Polaroids that was exhibited at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art DiCorcia lives and works in New York City
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PhilipLorca diCorcia is among the most innovative and influential photographers working today For nearly 30 years he has explored the intersection of documentary style with cinematic production making contemporary work that perches uncannily between the fictional and the real This survey of diCorcias career from the late1970s to the present draws from the artists most acclaimed series including Hustlers Streetworks Heads A Storybook Life and Lucky 13 In work from the 1980s diCorcia shows friends and family in domestic tableaux tinged with an air of mystery working from the subject matter of his life but eschewing romantic intimacy for studied detachment and pitchperfect detail In the 1990s he turns to the great American tradition of street photography That swiftlychanging environment might have seemed unlikely for diCorcias meticulous style but it provided some of his bestknown images including those of male prostitutes and anonymous crowds of urban pedestrians In more recent work he has photographed erotic pole dancers their bodies caught in contorted and seductive freefall The accompanying texts here include a piece by the New York writer and critic Lynne Tillman author of the acclaimed 2006 novel American Genius A Comedy
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PhilipLorca diCorcia was born in 1953 and lives in New York His inventively staged and exquisitely crafted color photographs occupy a special place in contemporary art Operating in the gap between postmodern fiction and documentary fact between slick convention and fresh perception they deliver a powerful emotional charge
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City scenes have been chronicled in photographs since the early 1800s but street photography as traditionally defined has captured a relatively narrow field of these images Revolutionizing the history of street photography Unfamiliar Streets explores the work of Richard Avedon 19232004 Charles Moore 19312010 Martha Rosler b 1943 and PhilipLorca diCorcia b 1951 four American photographers whose careers in fashion photojournalism conceptual art and contemporary art are not usually associated with the genre nbsp Bussards lively and engaging text a timely response to a growing interest in urban photography challenges the traditional understanding of street photography and makes original and important connections among urban culture social history and the visual arts constructing a new historical model for understanding street photography Illustrated with more than one hundred images this book provides an interpretation of a compelling genre that is as fresh as its consideration of the city streets themselves sites of commerce dispossession desire demonstration power and spectacle
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Uniting the five leading lights of the Boston School of American photography this is a showcase for some of the most striking and compelling imagery on the contemporary scene Drawing on a similar range of influences fashions studied glamour Larry Clarks haunting lowlife and the casual beauty of the snapshot all five contributors realise their visions in contrasting and highly idiosyncratic ways Nan Goldin is famous for her sexually polymorphous subjects the way she transforms her models into Warholesque superstars and her keen sense of irony and humour Intimate Goldin associate David Armstrong works with stark black and white portraits of confession and loss Mark Morrisroe is the tragic figure of the group who died of AIDS age 30 a dark romantic whose work combined narcissism and explicit poetry Jack Pierson is an impressionist for him the photograph is a postcard sent from a pure moment Working through an obsession with television imagery PhilipLorca DiCorcia stages and composes his models into images of mediated desire This is the photography of a generation raised on television and chemicals a stunning documentation of friendship lust and love at the end of the millennium
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Lorcas famous Gypsy Ballads were composed in the 1920s when his poetic style was evolving from the traditional towards the surrealist The combination of the ballads perennial narrative format with startling and allusive imagery has intrigued readers ever since
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New band member JP is struggling to march with his hefty concert tuba so a helpful director sends him in search of a solutionthe amazing sousaphone Along the way JP learns about Americas most famous bandmaster John Philip Sousa This factfilled story is told with engaging illustrations and ageappropriate vocabulary which can be read from each screen and heard each time you turn a page Embedded audio plays background music Sousa marches entertaining sound effects and a professionally voiced narration Watch the story come to life and extend the learning by clicking highlighted elements on each interactive page This interactive resource works on both individual computers and interactive whiteboards and is PC and Mac compatible Recommended for all ages
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From early amateur snapshots to today s advanced digital images photography has been the perfect means to record people s lives This provocative book explores the complex and varied ways that five contemporary photographersTina Barney PhilipLorca diCorcia Nan Goldin Sally Mann and Larry Sultanuse their own daily experiences as inspiration for their artEach of these artists has created highly personal shifting and intriguing visions of his or her life The works range from Tina Barney s orchestrated depictions of her friends and family in affluent New England settings to Nan Goldin s unabashed portrayal of intimate and often brutally honest moments Sally Mann turned to her children and their surroundings as her subject and Larry Sultan has accomplished something similar in his depictions of his parents PhilipLorca diCorcia offers up his storybook life in photographs that like others in this group span nearly twen
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Between 1997 and 2008 PhilipLorca diCorcia completed 11 photographic portfolios in collaboration with W magazines creative director Dennis Freedman In their epic scope and visual luxuriance these enigmatic and glamoursoaked photographic narratives stand as one of the most ambitious editorial projects of the last decade DiCorcia and Freedman traveled the globe to make these stories deploying fabulous locations ranging from a Lautner house in Los Angeles and the Mariinsky Opera House in St Petersburg to Windows on the World at the top of the World Trade Center and a notorious club échangiste swingers club in Paris The cast of characters included iconic models Nadja Auermann Guinevere van Seenus Kristen McMenamy Karen Elson Shalom Harlow and Hannelore Knuts the actress Isabelle Huppert the designer Marc Jacobs plus people cast on location DiCorcias fashion stories are collected for the first time in this superbly designed monograph and reveal themselves as a masterpiece of staged photography and photographic storytellingPhilipLorca diCorcia was born in Hartford Connecticut in 1951 He received his MFA in Photography from Yale University in 1979 DiCorcias work has been the subject of solo shows at The Museum of Modern Art New York the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston the Centre National de la Photographie Paris Whitechapel Art Gallery London and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia Madrid among others He has been named a Guggenheim Foundation Fellow and has received multiple grants from the National Endowment for the Arts His work is included in the collections of the Bibliotheque Nationale de France The Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art among others His previous books include A Storybook Life 2003 and Thousand 2007 a collection of Polaroids that was exhibited at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art DiCorcia lives and works in New York City
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Key writings by artists and theorists chart the shifting relationship between film and photography and how the rise of cinema forced photography to make a virtue of its stillnessThe cinematic has been a springboard for the work of many influential artists including Victor Burgin PhilipLorca diCorcia Stan Douglas Nan Goldin Douglas Gordon Cindy Sherman and Jeff Wall among others Much recent cinema meanwhile is rich with references to contemporary photography Video art has taken a photographic turn into pensive slowness photography now has at its disposal the budgets and scale of cinema This addition to Whitechapels Documents of Contemporary Art series surveys the rich history of creative interaction between the moving and the still photograph tracing their everchanging relationship since early modernismStill photographycinemas ghostly parentwas eclipsed by the medium of film but also set free The rise of cinema obliged photography to make a virtue of its own stillness Film on the other hand envied the simplicity the lightness and the precision of photography Russian Constructivist filmmakers considered avantgarde cinema as a sequence of graphic shots their Bauhaus Constructivist and Futurist photographer contemporaries assembled photographs into a form of cinema on the page In response to the rise of popular cinema Henri CartierBresson exalted the decisive moment of the still photograph In the 1950s reportage photography began to explore the possibility of snatching filmic fragments Since the 1960s conceptual and postconceptual artists have explored the narrative enigmas of the found film still The Cinematic assembles key writings by artists and theorists from the 1920s onincluding László MoholyNagy Pier Paolo Pasolini Victor Burgin Jeff Wall and Catherine Daviddocumenting the photographyfilm dialogue that has enriched both media
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