Philip-Lorca diCorcia: Contemporaries Series - Hardcover

Peter Galassi

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0870701452 ISBN 13: 9780870701450

Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1995

Synopsis

Fifty-five color plates, dating from 1978 to 1994, trace the evolution of the inventive photographer's work.

About this title

About the Author:

Philip-Lorca diCorcia was born in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1951. He received his MFA in Photography from Yale University in 1979. DiCorcia's 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.

Synopsis:

"Contemporaries" is a series designed to present to a wider audience the work of leading contemporary photographers. Each book examines a different artist in mid-career, surveys a body of their work, shows 50 of their photographs and includes an interpretive essay by a curator or critic. This text focuses on the American photographer Philip-Lorca diCorcia and contains an essay by Peter Galassi.

About this edition

• Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art, New York
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0870701452
• ISBN 13: 9780870701450
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 80