Joel-Peter Witkin (Photofile)

About this book

The classic Photofile series brings together the best work of the worlds greatest photographers in an attractive format and at a reasonable price. Handsome and collectible the books each contain reproductions in duotone and/or color plus a critical introduction and a bibliography. With his focus on the "disagreeable beauty" of the anomalous and the transgressive Joel-Peter Witkins images are edgy and disturbing. Influenced by artists from Giotto to the Surrealists by daguerreotypes and the work of Bellocq his portraits and complex tableaux incorporating corpses hermaphrodites masks and mutilation provoke and challenge the viewer. 64 photographs in color and duotone