Philip-Lorca Dicorcia

"Philip-Lorca diCorcia stages his color portraits with the iron hand of a 1940's film director. Lighting..., stance, choice of props and locale are rigorously arranged...[He] has his own unemotive agenda. He has removed the normal dramatic hooks that engage the viewer in a portrait...But the thwarting of viewers' lazy expectations can in itself be engaging, and in many cases Mr. diCorcia's portraits capture one of the hardest subjective states to photograph: meditative thought."Medvedow, Jill is the author of 'Philip-Lorca Dicorcia ', published 2007 under ISBN 9783865213853 and ISBN 3865213855.