Philip-Lorca diCorcia quotes

Philip-Lorca diCorcia quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“The more specific the interpretation suggested by a picture, the less happy I am with it.”
-- Philip-Lorca diCorcia

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“Photography... unites the obvious and the unconscious at the level of the limimal - the border between what we see and what we suspect.”
-- Philip-Lorca diCorcia

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“In the beginning of my photography I controlled everything: rearranging the room, lighting it, and telling people what to do and where to put their hands. By the last project, I was basically totally at the mercy of serendipity.”
-- Philip-Lorca diCorcia

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“There's a reductiveness to photography, of course - in the framing of reality and the exclusion of chunks of it (the rest of the world, in fact). It's almost as if the act of photography bears some relationship to how we consciously manage the uncontrollable set of possibilities that exist in life.”
-- Philip-Lorca diCorcia

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“Photography is a foreign language everyone thinks he speaks.”
-- Philip-Lorca diCorcia

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“Reality has become a parallel universe with photographers returning with different versions of what it truly looks like.”
-- Philip-Lorca diCorcia

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“The deepest motivation for a lot of artists is obviously the one they all share: their great fear they are a fraud. It's a joke. In my case the problem is not that I don't question myself. It's just that I question other people even more.”
-- Philip-Lorca diCorcia

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“[Photography is a] hair-raising joy ride in a medium that, despite being a mechanical trick, can break down the division between mind and matter like a superhero, or an artist.”
-- Philip-Lorca diCorcia

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