Some recent and former photographs of the well-known controversial photographic artist Joel-Peter Witkin (born September 13, 1939, in Brooklyn, NYC).
The picture on the top left of this post is from his “History of hats in art” (Fashion series for the NY Times). On its right is Picasso’s famous painting “Garçon Ă la Pipe (Boy with a Pipe)“. And the hat is a Chanel. On the bottom is one of Witkin’s work in 2008 “Reality is an Invention Balthus“.
For more than twenty years he has pursued his interest in spirituality and how it impacts the physical world in which we exist. Finding beauty within the grotesque, Witkin pursues this complex issue through people most often cast aside by society – human spectacles including hermaphrodites, dwarfs, amputees, androgynes, carcases, people with odd physical capabilities, fetishists and “any living myth … anyone bearing the wounds of Christ.”
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