A photographer with a painter’s eye for light and shadow and a filmmaker’s imagination for narrative, Philip-Lorca diCorcia creates extraordinary images.
Whether photographing pedestrians on city streets, exotic dancers on stripper poles, or hustlers in parking lots and seedy motel rooms, diCorcia always captures a sense of drama in his photographs. Fittingly, in the realm of fashion, his visual storytelling takes the focus off the clothes in favor of portraying certain lifestyles.
[Editor's note: We're reposting this feature from last year due to popular demand and the fact that we're wondering if most of you got to see it the first time around. Enjoy!]
On a recent holiday shopping trip uptown, in order to escape the hordes cascading down 5th Avenue, I ducked into one of New York’s contemporary art museums. While sauntering through the maze of galleries I came upon a certain photograph that gave me pause. I studied the slap-dash camera angle and the basic lighting, and thought to myself: “Really? This is what it takes? I can do that!”
And then it hit me like a bolt of lightning: Not only can I do that, I will do that, and then I will pawn off the results on all of my unsuspecting relatives. Why give a Richard Avedon poster, when I can make an original Adda Birnir knock-off? Thus I enlisted the help of my trusty co-conspirator Tom Starkweather and together we picked five masters of photography (Cindy Sherman, Steve McCurry, Philip Lorca Dicorcia, Richard Avedon, and Ryan McGinley) whose work we felt was just begging to be re-created.
Detailed instructions and the results, after the jump.
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