November 10, 2009 – 6:30pm Akron Art Museum Auditorium, FREE ADMISSION

Philip-Lorca diCorcia’s work challenges the inherent truth of the photographic medium by capturing seemingly random genre scenes and infusing them with a theatricality that leads one to question the reality of the subjects depicted. DiCorcia’s edgy, innovative work is defining his unique and important position in the history of the medium, as evidence by the following monographs: Philip-Lorca diCorcia (1993), Streetwork (1998), Heads (2001), A Story-Book Life (2003), and Thousand (2007).

Philip-Lorca diCorcia has received artist grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He received early acknowledgment of his contribution to photography by New York’s Museum of Modern Art, first in the New Photography series in 1985, and then in a 1993 solo exhibition. His most recent solo exhibitions were held at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in Los Angeles, California (2008) and the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, Massachusetts (2007). His photographs are collected by major art museums worldwide.