i love joel-peter witkin. the reason may not be how skillful or, how artistic he is. i love him just because his works are exploitative and bloodily shocking. he claims that he’s 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. he also claims that his complex and difficult background were an influence for his work. his work very often deals with death, corpses or pieces of them, and various outcasts such as dwarfs, transsexuals, hermaphrodites, and physically deformed people. His photographs recall religious episodes or famous classical paintings.
joel-peter witkin
venus and the madelene
portrait as a vanité 
glassman
portrait of a dwarf
woman with severed head
mandan (my favourite)
cadaver with necklace
woman breast feeding an eel
mother and childi am always bloodily and sweatily stimulated by his artworks... speechless.
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