Philip-Lorca diCorcia Heads

Phililp-Lorca diCorcia i think has helped to redefine the treadition of street photography. by bring in flash and setting up the shot to some extent. in this streetwork searise diCorcia captured these unexpected predations and to some extend turned them in to prformers. the strobe light picks unsepecting passerbys in the crowds. the light gives a sertan grativty to their facial expressions and eveything around them seems to fall in to insenifance

i think its relevance to Vermeer is manly with the image of the girl with the peal earing, the gase is quite silmular of being one of a split second look a gase oveer the sholder and the backround being black even thos its quite a leap from the studo bast patings of vemmer ware every odject in the image is the thought about and every stoke consived before hand to this street work wich is chaching that split second and it could be anything and the model is allmost compley chosen by chance.


Unaware of the camera, the subject are absorbed in thought, they act how we would if we wear walking down the street in a crowd focouse on somthing or nothing. but offten alone. their expressions become
riddled with fellings of melodrama.