Tokyo
Photograph
Tokyo
1994
Chromogenic development print
edition of 15
Image (visible): 63.3 x 96.5 cm
Overall: 64.9 x 96.2 cm
Frame: 97.3 x 127.8 cm
Purchase with funds from the Charina Foundation
2001.1539.0001
Inscriptions verso-(in pencil) "P.L. 133.9"
(signed) "Philip-Lorca diCorcia"
(signed) "Philip-Lorca diCorcia"
TextAmong the most celebrated photographers to have emerged in the 1990s, Philip-Lorca diCorcia creates photographs that hover between reality and fiction. For the series Streetwork, from which this image comes, he traveled to cities around the world, installed lights in the pavement, and remained in the area for hours choosing when to click the shutter. The resulting images capture passersby in strikingly cinematic postures with expressions that suggest an uncanny conflation of public and private psychological space. By blurring the line between documentary truth and directorial fiction, diCorcia asserts photography’s complex negotiation of conceptual terrain that has become a hallmark of contemporary art.
Lisa Hostetler, Ph.D.
Curator in Charge, Department of Photography
Label for A History of Photography [Rotation 1]
May 9–September 28, 2014
Lisa Hostetler, Ph.D.
Curator in Charge, Department of Photography
Label for A History of Photography [Rotation 1]
May 9–September 28, 2014
