Joel-Peter Witkin

Portrait of Joel-Peter Witkin - 1984

American Photographer Joel Peter Witkin was born in 1939 and is still making disturbing photographs to this day. Witkin’s emphasis on death and corpses makes his work hard to popularize in the modern world of photography. Witkin refers his particular “style” to be the result of a traumatic childhood experience in which he witnessed a young girl’s head get cut off due to a car crash.

Feast of Fools - 1990


Myself a a Dead Clown - 2007


The Kiss - 1982


Man Without a Head - 1993



Anna Akhmatova - 1998


Interrupted Reading - 1999


Ars Moriendi - 2007


Corpus Medius - 2000


Cupid and Centaur - 1992


Story From a Book - 1999

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