JOEL PETER WITKIN

Joel Peter Witkin

Joel Peter Witkin

Joel-Peter Witkin (born September 13, 1939, in Brooklyn, New York City) is an American photographer who lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. His work often deals with such themes as death, corpses (and sometimes dismembered portions thereof), and various outsiders such as dwarfs, transsexuals, hermaphrodites, and physically deformed people. Witkin's complex tableaux often recall religious episodes or famous classical paintings.

Witkin's work is an interesting blend of his own vision and classic works of art. That is, he takes original ideas and reinterprets them with his own cast of characters. Some of them real, some of them ...