Philip-Lorca diCorcia

Philip-Lorca diCorcia (1951) is renowned for his evocative photographs of figures and street scenes, which combine both documentary and conceptual elements of photography. He studied photography at the University of Hartford in the 1970s, and later at the Boston School of the Museum of Fine Arts, and in 1979 earned a Masters of Fine Arts in Photography from Yale University. At Yale, diCorcia photographed friends and family in shots that seem utterly candid, but in reality involve hours of staging and elaborate lighting techniques to blur the lines between the mundane and the manufactured. In addition to his own work, diCorcia worked as a commercial photographer in the 1980s, making spreads for publications such as Esquire, The New York Times Magazine, and Harper’s Bazaar.