a Storybook Life

Philip-Lorca Dicorcia
a Storybook Life

Photographs: Philip-Lorca diCorcia

Publisher: Twin Palms Publisher

75 pages

Year: 2003

Comments: Clothbound hardcover book with a dust jacket. 28.5 x 37 cm. First edition. Color photographs. The cover is a bit yellowed otherwise in very good condition.

'The disparate photographs assembled here were made over the course of twenty years. None of them were originally intended to be used in this book. By ordering and shaping them I tried to investigate the possibilities of narrative both within a single image and especially in relation to the other photographs. A Storybook Life is an attempt to discover the possibilities of meaning in the interaction of seemingly unrelated images in the hope that content can constantly mutate according to both the external and internal condition of the viewer, but remain meaningful because of its inherent, but latent content. The conscious and subconscious decisions made in editing the photographs is the real work of A Storybook Life.' -Philip-Lorca diCorcia