Photography Appreciation
Welcome to The Freak Show. The place you'd probably hear Nine Inch Nails in the background as you walk through a dark gallery with Joel Peter Witkin's work hanging along the walls. There you would see two decapitated heads kissing or photos of a hermaphrodite Venus.
Joel Peter Witkin is an American photographer best known for his subjects which are either corpses, cadaver pieces, or live individuals who are either malformed or have sexual oddities. The technique used in developing the photos adds to the troubling and disturbing images.
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Untitled via stufftoblowyourmind
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The Kiss (1982) via mathilda-herve
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Venus Preferred to Christ, Paris (1997) via artnet
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Sources:
http://v1.zonezero.com/exposiciones/fotografos/witkin2/
http://www.art-forum.org/z_Witkin/gallery.htm
http://www.emptykingdom.com/featured/joel-peter-witkin/
http://mathilda-herve.blogspot.com/2009/12/transgressive-art-why-are-we-as-society.html
http://www.kenweingart.com/blog/interview-joel-peter-witkin/
http://blog.art21.org/2011/10/06/on-view-now-the-curious-case-of-night-scented-stock/witkin_lebaiser/
http://www.ateliervagabond.com/blog/2012/06/29/the-moral-questions-ofwitkins-photographs/#.VUGO8PnF-So
http://newanalogue.blogspot.com/2011/05/joel-peter-witkin.html
http://www.artnet.com/artists/joel-peter-witkin/
http://www.stufftoblowyourmind.com/blog/artatomical-joel-peter-witkins-harvest/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel-Peter_Witkin
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