Evans Pictures On A Pace

DiCorcia, Philip-Lorca (Photographer) & Sante, Luc (Contributor). PHILIP-LORCA DICORCIA: HEADS. Gottingen, Germany: Gerhard Steidl Druckerei Und Verlag, 2001.
Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. Collection of portrait-cum-street photographs. One of the most important photography books of the new century. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. A brilliant production by Philip-Lorca diCorcia and Gerhard Steidl: Oversize-volume format in wide oblong shape. Rich black silk cloth boards with white titles embossed on spine, as issued. Photographs by Philip-Lorca diCorcia. Essay by Luc Sante. Printed on thick coated stock paper in Gottingen, Germany to the very highest standards. In matching black DJ with white titles printed on the cover and spine, as issued. Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at the Pace Wildenstein Gallery New York from September 6 through October 13, 2001. Presents Philip-Lorca diCorcia's austerely simple and astonishing ly original "take" on the portrait, photography's oldest genre, which the artist/photographer has given a fresh twist by assimilating elements of street photography. "Setting up shop in New York City, diCorcia took unstaged pictures of passers-by that follow in the street photography tradition of Paul Strand, Walker Evans, Harry Callahan, and Robert Frank. DiCorcia's work helps to redefine the genre, bringing street photography into our post-modern world" (Publisher's blurb). In other words, they remain consistent with his elaborately staged photo-tableaux, in which he meticulously plans every element of the shot before taking the photograph. The portraits may have been taken unposed and without the anonymous subjects' knowledge (just like Walker Evans' subway riders in "Many Are Called", for example), but they look posed rather than snapshot-spontaneous. In this sense, the collection is a radical departure from the entire oeuvre we call street photography and represents a further development and refinement of Philip-Lorca diCorcia's rigorous aesthetics. There is a stillness in each of the portraits that fixes one's gaze on the image within the frame, just as all of diCorcia's constructed photographs do. The subjects in the foreground are well-lit while the details in the background are blurred and even darkened, beautifully capturing the "alone-ness" and "private-ness" that characterize the artist/photographer's personal universe while hinting somehow at the ineffable, the mysterious, and the sublime. "Photography is a foreign language everyone thinks he speaks" (Philip-Lorca diCorcia). A "must-have" title for Philip-Lorca diCorcia collectors. <b><i> This copy is prominently and beautifully signed in black fountain pen on the title page by Philip-Lorca diCorcia. This title is now highly collectible. This is one of extremely few signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition still available online and is in fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. A rare signed copy thus. </b></i> 17 color plates. One of the most important and influential living artist/photographers. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER PHILIP-LORCA DICORCIA TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 3882434414. Signed..

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