Philip-Lorca Dicorcia Research Paper

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In the early 1990’s Philip-Lorca diCorcia developed a series that has multiple titles, such as “Strangers” and “Trade”, but now known as “Hustlers”. The series is a collection of portraits diCorcia of male prostitutes in Hollywood, California. diCorcia made five trips to Los Angeles; he would drive down Santa Monica Boulevard until he picked up a subject and then he would pay them their “going rate” but instead of exchanging the money for sex he was payed to photograph them. He would take them to a setting that he and his assistant had pre-arranged and would take their photographs. When the series was shown, each piece was titled with the name of the subject, their age, where they were from, and how much money they were paid during this

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