Best of 2001 A Special Issue: Over the next twenty pages, ten Artforum contributors remember the high points of the past year.

From: Artforum International | Date: December 1, 2001 | Copyright information

Vince Aletti

1 Philip-Lorca diCorcia (Pace Wildenstein, New York) Because the subjects of diCorcia's larger-than-life head shots are unaware that their pictures are being taken, they exist in a weird state of grace. Hyperalert urban radar temporarily down, these pedestrians look touchingly vulnerable: alone and adrift. The photographer "cringes" at the idea that his work is humanistic and insists he's "not the slightest bit sympathetic" toward his subjects, yet he never...

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