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Text engl. - Staged color photographs which look like live snapshots.

[Text at Schaden.com:] Second edition of the famous sold out MOMA catalogue. Beautiful book, milestone work on the edge between documentary and staged photography. - Nur Kurztitelaufnahme 04.2004.

Includes an exhibition history and bibliography. - From the publisher: "Philip-Lorca diCorcia’s inventively staged and exquisitely crafted color photographs occupy a special place in contemporary art. Operating in the gap between postmodern fiction and documentary fact, between slick convention and fresh perception, they deliver a powerful emotional charge. The 55 color plates in this book, dating from 1978 to 1994, trace the evolution of a compelling and influential body of work. Beginning with enigmatic domestic scenarios whose protagonists are the photographer’s family and friends, diCorcia moved on to an ambitious series in which Hollywood drifters and hustlers are pictured as emblematic figures of contemporary America. He proceeded to deploy his probing curiosity amid the energy and turmoil of big-city streets, reinvigorating a rich photographic tradition that had been dormant for nearly a generation.“

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Text engl. - Also published as slipcased edition, signed, 100 copies. - [Text at Schaden.com:] "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 ccording to both the external and internal condition of the viewer, but remain meaningful because of itfis inherent, but latent content. The conscious and subconscious decisions made in editing the photographs is the real work of A Storybook Life.“ (Phillip-Lorca diCorcia).

Deluxe limited edition with dye transfer print released in 2004. This print, "Ventura, 1991“, is also reproduced on the dust jacket of the book (image size is 8 x 10 1/2 inches, on 11 x 14 inch paper). The print edition of 20 is also numbered and signed in pencil on verso by diCorcia, and is presented in a 11 1/4 x 14 inch in an archival hinged window-mat with tissue guard. This is the only dye transfer print in existence by diCorcia (diCorcia's gallery print editions are Type-C prints. The book is beautifully printed by EBS, Verona . From the publisher (by Philip-Lorca diCorcia): "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 it's inherent, but latent content. The conscious and subconscious decisions made in editing the photographs is the real work of A Storybook Life."

Nur Kurztitelaufnahme 10.2006.

Text dt., engl. - Nebeneintrag. - Vgl. http://www.camera-austria.at. - „Angesichts der visuellen Durchdringung unserer Gegenwart, unseres Alltags- und Privatlebens, aber auch angesichts der Manipulierbarkeit des Visuellen ist es – vielleicht mehr denn je – notwendig, nach den gegenwärtigen Strategien zeitgenössischer FotokünstlerInnen und FilmemacherInnen zu fragen. Gemeinsam mit Tobias Zielony legen wir in 20 Interviews die unterschiedlichen Schattierungen des dokumentarischen Zugriffs frei, die sich in den Arbeiten internationaler KünstlerInnen zeigen – Strategien, die sich nach wie vor an sozialen Realitäten orientieren und denen nach wie vor ein Begriff oder eine Vorstellung des Dokumentarischen zugrunde zu liegen scheint.“ (Redaktionsmitteilung).

Text engl. - Other edition: New York: Abrams 2011. - Fashionable portraits taken in 11 cities.

Nur Kurztitelaufnahme 04.2004. - [Text at Schaden.com:] Die Arbeiten DiCorcias 1978 - 1993 erscheinen in Kürze wieder.

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"Eine umfassende, retrospektive Zusammenstellung von Franks Photographien. Anlaß ist sein 70. Geburtstag und eine Ausstellung der National Gallery of Art." (Werbetext Lindemanns Photobuchhandlung, 11.1995). - "With a chronology, list of works exhibited, bibliography, plus selected books, articles and photographic essays... from the National Gallery's archive of Frank's vintage prints, contact sheets, and work prints. In specially commissioned essays, five noted scholars provide an in-depth examination of his seminal contribution to the art of photography and film" (Strand Book Store Cat. H-8, p. 21, New York 1995). - Dieser Band wurde mit dem Kodak Fotobuchpreis 1995 ausgezeichnet.

Die Originalausgabe erschien unter dem Titel “Dark Odyssey” bei Aperture, New York 1996. - Vgl. Buchbesprechnung in “50 Fotobücher ausgewählt von Karl Steinorth für Color Foto 1997. Sonderdruck für Freunde des Verfassers, Weihnachten 1997”.

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Text engl. - Original edition: San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovitch 1987.

Nur Kurztitelaufnahme 09.2001.