[mitzy_69]

the picture with the horse and woman is a bit too wierd for my taste ... why would anyone find that art is beyond me..

[Marcusbr]

LOL

[structive]

Joel-Peter Witkin

(born September 13, 1939, in Brooklyn, New York City) is an American photographer who lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico.



Witkin claims that his vision and sensibility were initiated by an episode he witnessed when he was just a small child, a car accident that occurred in front of his house in which a little girl was decapitated.

It happened on a Sunday when my mother was escorting my twin brother and me down the steps of the tenement where we lived. We were going to church. While walking down the hallway to the entrance of the building, we heard an incredible crash mixed with screaming and cries for help. The accident involved three cars, all with families in them. Somehow, in the confusion, I was no longer holding my mother's hand. At the place where I stood at the curb, I could see something rolling from one of the overturned cars. It stopped at the curb where I stood. It was the head of a little girl. I bent down to touch the face, to speak to it -- but before I could touch it someone carried me away.

His work often deals with such themes as death, corpses (or pieces of them), and various outsiders such as dwarfs, transsexuals, hermaphrodites, and physically deformed people. Some of his works, namely those with corpses in them, have had to been created in Mexico in order to get around restrictive US laws.

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[structive]

Ooops, I see this is a repost, there is another thread related to Witkin...

[alpha.first.one]

a genius? he fucken sicko!not art in any sense

[thissiteisfuckedup]

one event has turned him into this .wow

[annmarie]

ive never heard of this artist but i will find her book id
love to add it to my collection of strange and curious books