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Philip-Lorca diCourtroom Well, well, one of my favorite photographers is being sued for daring, gasp!, to photograph someone in one of the most public places in the world. Renowned portrait photographer Philip-Lorca diCorcia has had a lawsuit filed against him for photographing, then exhibiting and selling prints, of strangers captured in public at Times Square in 2001 as part of his "Heads" series. The stranger in question is Erno Nussenzweig, a retired diamond merchant from New Jersey, who is snapping back at not only diCorcia, but also Pace Wildenstein, the exhibiting gallery, publisher Pace/MacGill, and even unnamed distributors and sellers of the image and the book produced from the "Heads" project. So says Mr. Jay Goldberg, Nussenzweig's lawyer, about the case: "We claim that to take someone's picture without their consent is bad enough. But to then hang the picture in galleries, put it in books and sell it around the city without telling the person or obtaining permission is unfair and outrageous." The image in question of Mr. Nussenzweig was a part of diCorcia's winning 2002 Citigroup Prize portfolio, but was made under scaffolding at Times Square and not in the subway, as the Guardian story explains. (Thanks to Greg Allen for the amusing headline.) 
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