diCorcia, Philip-Lorca - Vittorio Scarpatti press photo (1989)

Philip-Lorca diCorcia. Vittorio Scarpatti press photo. New York: Philip-Lorca diCorcia, 1989. Photograph. 10" x 8". Very good. Sticker with information on back with hand-writing in pen and pencil. Remnants of pink sticker to back bottom. A period press photo of David Zwirner gallery artist Philip-Lorca diCorcia's searing portrait of Vittorio Scarlatti ill with AIDS in his hospital bed. This press photo is black and white unlike the editioned photo-artwork which is in color. It has also been printed a bit darker. This photo was included by Nan Goldin in the 1989 exhibition Witnesses: Against Our Vanishing she curated for Artists Space.