The photographic appointments :Philip-Lorca diCorcia

Philip-Lorca diCorcia is an American photographer, born in 1951 in Hartford, Connecticut. He lives and works in New York. His photographs combine elements of the documentary artistic style with a controlled and complex construction principle specific to the fictional image.
Philip-Lorca diCorcia began to take an interest in photography in the 1970s, when he began studying photography at Hartford University. He graduated from Boston's School of Museum of Arts in 1975 and entered the two-year photography training program at Yale University in 1979.
After becoming interested in the conceptual photography of her time, DiCorcia, during her training at Yale, inherits two usually opposite approaches to photography.
An approach supported by the American documentary tradition, among others photographers like Walker Evans or Robert Frank, according to which even if documentary photography is well recognized as being an artistic style, it is a style based on the idea that photography would be a medium that would allow a direct transposition of reality as it is, in images. This conception of photography tends to consider that reality and its representation are in perfect adequacy.
But, beyond his approach of photography, diCorcia also inherits an approach as a medium with many creative possibilities. He is particularly influenced by the aesthetics of the advertising image but also by some aspects of the cinematographic image. According to Peter Galassi, if diCorcia adopts the vocabulary of commercial photography, it is not for him to judge the latter but to recognize it as an integral part of his experience.