Joel-Peter Witkin (b.1939) is a major artist whose work shocks but also provokes and questions. In his examination of the human condition, Witkin reinterprets some of the great works of Western art and photographic history in his own terms. Although controversial, his work has been exhibited worldwide and won numerous awards. 
Other artists in this series include: Eugene Atget, Mathew Brady, Wynn Bullock, Julia Margaret Cameron, Joan Fontcuberta, David Goldblatt, Nan Goldin, Graciela Iturbide, Andre Kertesz, Dorothea Lange, Mary Ellen Mark, Joel Meyerowitz, Boris Mikhailov, Lisette Model, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Eadweard Muybridge, Eugene Richards, W. Eugene Smith, Shomei Tomatsu,

Joel-Peter Witkin (Phaidon 55s)

Arts & Photography

Witkin, Joël-peter

Parry, Eugenia

Individual Artists

Phaidon Inc Ltd

48 pages; 23 full page duo-toned photographic plates plus 5 reference plates and multiple text illustrations; 9 x 12 inches. Includes a checklist of the exhibition and a biography.

Joel-Peter Witkin: Forty Photographs

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

The classic Photofile series brings together the best work of the  world's 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 Witkin's 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

Joel-Peter Witkin

Twelvetrees Pr

Gods of Earth and Heaven

Photography & Video

Twin Palms was the first to publish Joel-Peter Witkin, and have always produced his most exquisite monographs. This slipcased retrospective is true to the quality of their collaboration. The contents were selected by Witkin himself, and reflect his own highly personal tastes.

The Bone House

Twin Palms Pub

Disciple &amp; Master unites witkin's photographs with the images that inspired them. Works by photographers such as Charles Negre, Walker Evans, Horst and Cartier-Bresson are matched with Witkin's compelling visions. Text by the photographer illuminates the complex relationship between each pair of images.

Disciple & Master

Fotofolio, INc

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.

Witkin

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Castello Di Rivoli (Museum : Rivoli, Italy)

Celant, Germano

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Distributed Art Pub Inc

Apôtre de la "désagréable beauté" et de l'anormalité, sans cesse à la recherche de personnages d'exception, difformes ou monstrueux, Joel-Peter Witkin donne à des images qui pourraient n'être que provocatrices une dimension d'icônes laïques, d'allégories sacrificielles. C'est Soutine ou Bataille qu'il faut citer pour trouver des similitudes dans l'art de sublimer l'horreur. L'oeuvre de Witkin est une danse de mort, somptueusement mise en scène par le plus visionnaire des photographes. Introduction de Eugenia Parry 64 photographies en couleur notices biographique et bibliographique\nFrom the Back Cover\nApôtre de la "désagréable beauté" et de l'anormalité, sans cesse à la recherche de personnages d'exception, difformes ou monstrueux, Joel-Peter Witkin donne à des images qui pourraient n'être que provocatrices une dimension d'icônes laïques, d'allégories sacrificielles. C'est Soutine ou Bataille qu'il faut citer pour trouver des similitudes dans l'art de sublimer l'horreur. L'oeuvre de Witkin est une danse de mort, somptueusement mise en scène par le plus visionnaire des photographes. Introduction de Eugenia Parry 64 photographies en couleur notices biographique et bibliographique

Joel-Peter Witkin: Photo Poche n° 49

Actes-sud

WITKIN

DELPIRE

JOEL-PETER WITKIN (Signed)

Forum Bottcherstrasse

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