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“Photography is a foreign language everyone thinks he speaks.”

Quote by Philip-Lorca diCorcia

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Philip-Lorca diCorcia

Philip-Lorca diCorcia is a renowned American photographer known for his unique street photography style. His works are characterized by carefully planned scenes and portraitures of individuals, blending elements of realism and surrealism. DiCorcia's contributions have had a profound impact on the art world, with his photographic techniques and social commentary holding significant importance in contemporary photography. more

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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.”

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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.”

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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.”

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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.”

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“Does inadequacy not characterize all that we make use of to perceive and describe the world? Are the signs of language not just as inadequate, albeit differently, as are images?”

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“Photography works hand in glove with image and memory and therefore possesses their notable epidemic power.”

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Book:Images in Spite of All: Four Photographs from Auschwitz

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“Images embrace us: they open up to us and close themselves to us in so far as they conjure up in us something that we could call an interior experience.”

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“The image is not a closed field of knowledge; it is a whirling, centrifugal field. It is not a field of knowledge like any other; it is a movement demanding all the anthropological aspects of being and time.”

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“I don't look for things to see how they function as metaphors.... You can't photograph the sublime. You can only traffic in the specific and its relationship to the symbolic.”

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“To photograph is often compared to an act of redemption - to select from an infinite number of choices that which is to be remembered.”

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