Philip-Lorca diCorcia: Female pole dancers — nude and mostly nude — will be on display at the Institute of Contemporary Art this summer, the subjects of a series of striking life-size photographs by Philip-Lorca diCorcia (right), whose work will be presented in the ICA’s first full-scale solo artist exhibition in its new building. A 1976 graduate of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, diCorcia is best known for uncannily vivid metropolitan street scenes that he produced in the 1990s. In these large color pictures, pedestrians appear frozen in unnaturally intense, raking light. Shot from a low angle, the pictures have a strangely dramatic quality, like stills from a Steven Spielberg movie showing scenes just before some enormous calamity. June 1-Sept. 3. 617-478-3100, icaboston.org.

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