Customer Reviews

Storybook Life

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If you really like and admire the work of Philip-Lorca diCorcia then this book may be really tempting, however take care, the beautifully lit and composed work that you are used to is only a small fraction of this book. the rest is made up of landscape work which veers away from the rich vein of work that have brought him success, and in many cases these photographs are not that good when compared with the landscape work being produced by many of his contemporarys. Take a look for yourself before buying.

According to Vince Auletti in the Village Voice

"What makes "A Storybook Life" so enthralling isn't diCorcia's proven skill at crafting a convincing fiction, it's his ability to invest the whole nearly indigestible enterprise with feeling: longing, confusion, regret, tenderness, dismay, love, and, above all, a kind of bruised optimism. It's the accumulated weight of this emotion-however muffled, disguised, or denied-that gives the work its power as a piece. DiCorcia is no sentimentalist; he's far too smart and too subtle. He's not spilling his guts, he's constructing a riddle that even he doesn't know the answer to. All the more surprising that, in the end, he's also created a piece that doesn't seem to be just about his life, but ours."

I could not have said it better myself.

Although I agree that there are images in this book which should not be included, this is a nice concept piece considered as a whole. And I do somewhat disagree with those that say the landscape photography is weak. I find some of it to be quite striking. One in particular is probably one of the subtlest and most striking landscapes I have seen in recent publications. It's unfair to compare Philip-Lorca diCorcia's work with that of Thomas Struth and Andreas Gursky. This book is wonderful, and well worth the investment.

I bought this as a gift for someone. So I really don't know what to do about rating it.

HY...THAT BOOK IS AN AMAZING COLLECTION OF BEAUTYFULL PICTURES.Philip Lorca is now one of the best photographers that we can observe.It's really full of contemporary notes ,if you buy this book tou can see a lot of good example on what you could work now.These pictures are like a bunch of frozen's memories of our world is aesthetical for suare...but is also devoted to hunmanity in a frozen way but it is....
i like a lot
really
best regards

I have looked at this book over and over again and it means something different every time.
He is one of the greats.