The Decisive Moment

In Gerry Badgers book, The Genius Of Photography he talks in relation to Henri Cartier-Bresson’s book The Decisive Moment; 

• "The instant when a prescient photographer anticipates a significant moment in the continuous flux of life and captures it in a fraction of a second." (Badger, 2007)
  

• "It is a notion often misunderstood. The decisive moment is not necessarily the instant of peak action - the soldier dropping as the bullet hits him in Capa's picture, the woman denouncing a suspected Gestapo stool pigeon in an image Catier-Bresson took at the end of the war. It refers, rather, to the moment when every element in the view finder coalesces to make a picture, an image."  (Badger, 2007)
  

I feel the latter of these two quotes is very pertinent to DiCorcia's Heads, series. It is obvious from looking at the subjects of the Heads series (their thoughtful gazes, wistful look and on the whole simply how interesting his images are), that DiCorcia has not just "snapped" away to obtain these images, DiCorcia has obviously waited for that "decisive" moment.