How amazing is fact that sometimes we do not know someone name but we recognize his art work and when we are looking for a specific artist suddenly one of the pics reminds us something. We can say that we have seen it somewhere before. It seems to be prdinary photograph but it is not. What would half-naked man be doing in front of the supermarket. Why someone took a picture of him? Was is an accident or the scene was carefully set up?
Philip-Lorca diCorcia (born 1951) is an American photographer. He studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Afterwards diCorcia attended Yale University where he received a Master of Fine Arts in Photography in 1979. He now lives and works in New York, and teaches at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. His photographs would then give a sense of heightened drama to the passers-by accidental poses, unintended movements and insignificant facial expressions. Even if sometimes the subject appears to be completely detached to the world around him, diCorcia has often used the city of the subject's name as the title of the photo, placing the passers-by back into the city's anonymity.
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/cruelandtender/dicorcia.htm
http://www.artscenecal.com/ArticlesFile/Archive/Articles1997/Articles1097/PdiCorciaA.html
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