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.
The classic Photofile series brings together the best work of the world's greatest photographers in an attractive format and at a reasonable price.
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.