Philip-Lorca Dicorcia (1951-), a famous contemporary American photographer. His works are carefully arranged cinematography. He believes that photography does not reflect reality, but simulates reality, so most of his photography is a pose of scenes and lighting. His representative works are "Writing on the Street".
In the "Avatar" series, Philip gave up the director-style pose and tried to blur the boundary between "instant snapshot" and "realistic pose". Standing in Times Square, New York, Philip used the ultra- telephoto lens to target a character, and turned on the flash at the character every few times and kept pressing the shutter. The portraits captured by secretly taking pictures are like artificially controlled posing works.
What Philip cares about is not the external image of the characters, but their psychology. Whether it is street snapshots or indoor posing, he is portraying the inner reality of the characters, loneliness, anxiety, etc. This is one of the important characteristics of contemporary photography art. The boundary between traditional snapshots and posing is becoming increasingly blurred. Artists focus on the psychological reality and existence relationship of characters. As for the appearance of "reality", it can be real or fictional.
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