Philip-Lorca diCorcia

When it comes to Philip-Lorca diCorcia’s fashion photography, it’s the story that covers the spread – not the dress. The American art photographer, known for his staged and theatrical compositions, uses everyday-life settings for his fashion shoots, taking away any idolisation of the subject and adding a symbolic dimension to his images.

Reflecting on the iconic contributions diCorcia made to fashion, the David Zwimer Gallery in New Yok presents ‘Philip-Lorca diCorcia: Eleven’, an exhibition on the fashion spreads made for W Magazine between 1997 and 2008. The selected works in the gallery stem from a series of eleven editorial projects he did in different parts of the world – Bangkok, Cairo, São Paulo, Havana, Paris, Los Angeles, New York and East Hampton.

Each photograph depicts a special narrative, inspired on the location at hand: Marc Jacobs in his bedroom in Paris; a model holding a rooster inside a cockfighting ring in Bangkok; three exotic dancers posing in a decayed building in Havana or a bride decorating a ceiling in an empty conference room in Sao Paulo.

“Phlip-Lorca diCorcia: Eleven” continues through March 5, 2011, at 525 West 19th Street, NY, NY.

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