About this title: Joel-Peter Witkin is one of the most controversial artists working today, unsurprising for an artist whose career began photographing sideshow performers at Coney Island as a teenager and who cites his witnessing of the decapitation of a child in an accident as an influential childhood experience. Witkin's extraordinary visual sensibility produces shocking, yet undeniably compelling, tableaux that enact macabre deviant dreams and that find beauty in the grotesque, the different or the unusual. Witkin was born in Brooklyn. New York in 1939 and raised in Catholic school. His work bears the mark ...
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Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 128 p. Contains: Illustrations. 55. Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: GOOD. Crisp, clean, unread hardcover with light to moderate shelfwear/edgewear to the dust jacket, may include a bump ot tear to the corner and a publisher's mark to one edge-Nice! ! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Phaidon Press
Date Published: 6-5-07
ISBN-13:9780714847870ISBN:0714847879
Description: GOOD. Crisp, clean, unread hardcover with light to moderate shelfwear/edgewear to the dust jacket, may include a bump ot tear to the corner and a publisher's mark to one edge-Nice! ! 1.4 lbs. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Phaidon Press
Date Published: 6-5-07
ISBN-13:9780714847870ISBN:0714847879
Description: FINE. Crisp, clean, unread hardcover with Phaidon "non mint" stamp and small tear to the dust jacket-otherwise VERY NICE! 1.4 lbs. read more
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"The tiny format of this book does not do justice to the tedious preparatory steps and subtle, masterful darkroom manipulations prevalent within Witkin's oeuvre. The images contained in this excruciatingly small collection, however, are the stuff of sinister genius."
"Tony just turned me on to the work of Joel-Peter Witkin, and the Lawrence Public LIbrary doesn't have any books of his work, so I requested some through inter-library loan.
WOW! Witkin's work is like some sort of bizarre dream. He uses parts of cadavers and (often naked) people with unusual bodies to make his strange, sometimes disturbing photographs.
This book is nice because each photo has an explanation for how he created the piece.
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