Philip-Lorca diCorcia (born 1951)
Mike Vincetti, 24 years old, New York, New York, $30, 1990-1992
Chromogenic print.
23 5/8 x 36in (60 x 91.5cm)
sheet 31 3/4 x 44in (80.6 x 111.8cm)
Footnotes:
Provenance
The collection of Box Studios, New York;
to a private collection

In the early 1990s, Philip-Lorca diCorcia began taking portraits of hustlers and male prostitutes in Los Angeles. The information contained in the title of this work provides the subject's name, age, his home city, and what he typically charges for a sex act—which is also the amount diCorcia paid him (out of a National Endowment for the Arts grant) to take his picture.
Mike stands on a Hollywood street at dusk, palm trees with the unmistakeable Capitol Records building behind him. DiCorcia uses this public space to create this highly staged photograph that juggles a number of ideas - truth, value, necessity and commodification.

Please see lot 60 for another example from this series.

Neutral toned print on semi-gloss paper with margins. Small and barely perceptible handling 'dimple,' lower right quadrant, barely visible in a raking light only. A wonderful image, in very good/ excellent condition.