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Joel-Peter Witkin

 
Joel-Peter Witkin

photographer
(Brooklyn, NY, September 13, 1939 - )

Joel-Peter Witkin is an American photographer who lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. His work often deals with such themes as death, corpses, and various outsiders such as dwarves, transsexuals, hermaphrodites, and physically deformed people.

14 objects

Humor and Fear, New Mexico

1999
toned gelatin silver print on paper
Gift of halley k harrisburg, Class of 1990, and Michael Rosenfeld
2013.20
 

Twelve Photographs

1992
hand-pulled photogravures on paper
Clark Collection
2022.8.53.1 -.12
 

Man with Dog, Mexico City

1990
hand-pulled photogravure on paper
Clark Collection
2022.8.53.12
 

Head of a Dead Man, Mexico City

1990
hand-pulled photogravure on paper
Clark Collection
2022.8.53.1
 

Satiro, Mexico City

1992
hand-pulled photogravure on paper
Clark Collection
2022.8.53.2
 

Three Kinds of Women, Mexico City

1992
hand-pulled photogravure on paper
Clark Collection
2022.8.53.3
 

Un Santo Oscuro, New Mexico

1987
hand-pulled photogravure on paper
Clark Collection
2022.8.53.4
 

Still Life, Mexico

1992
hand-pulled photogravure on paper
Clark Collection
2022.8.53.5
 

Las Meninas, New Mexico

1987
hand-pulled photogravure on paper
Clark Collection
2022.8.53.6
 

Studio of the Painter, Paris

1990
hand-pulled photogravure on paper
Clark Collection
2022.8.53.7
 

Feast of Fools, Mexico City

1990
hand-pulled photogravure on paper
Clark Collection
2022.8.53.8
 

Laokoön, New Mexico

1990
hand-pulled photogravure on paper
Clark Collection
2022.8.53.9
 

Nègre's Fetishist, Paris

1990
hand-pulled photogravure on paper
Clark Collection
2022.8.53.10
 

Vanity, New Mexico

1990
hand-pulled photogravure on paper
Clark Collection
2022.8.53.11