J: How do you choose the characters?
Ph: They come from the fringes of society…people that escape notice but are nevertheless the paragons of society.
J: The guy with the umbrella, the newspaper and the cellular phone in New York, how is he a paragon of society?
Ph: He is every thing that everybody would want to be in that area-this is 5th Ave. and 52nd St. in Manhattan-this guy epitomized this whole thing.
From an interview of Philip Lorca diCoria by Josefina Ayerza
“The man is Erno Nussenzweig. When he saw his picture in an exhibition catalog for diCorcia’s “Heads,” he sued the photographer and his gallery.”
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