Joel-Peter Witkin Books
Joel-Peter Witkin is an American photographer whose work often explores themes of death, corpses, and various societal outsiders. His complex tableaux frequently evoke religious episodes or iconic classical paintings. Witkin's distinctive artistic vision confronts the viewer with the challenging intersections of life, death, and the uncanny.
Joel-Peter Witkin
- 128 pages
- 5 hours of reading
This volume - investigating the work of a particular photographer, in this case, Joel-Peter Witkin - comprises a 4000-word essay by an expert in the field, 55 photographs presented chronologically, each with a commentary, and a biography of the featured photographer.
Few living photographers are as consistently controversial and provocative as Joel-Peter Witkin, whose work elicits hostility and admiration in equal measure. Shocking and compelling, the photographs in this retrospective collection reach to the outer limits of human nature. 100 full-page reproductions, printed in four colors.
