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Title: Witkin by Joel-Peter Witkin, Germano Celant, Italy) Castello Di Rivoli (Museum : Rivoli, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum ISBN: 1-881616-20-7 Publisher: Scalo Verlag Ac Pub. Date: October, 1995 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $75.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Hypnotic Dreamscape Daring You to Look Away
Comment: Strange, decadent, daring, lush, sacred, gorgeous, hideous, nightmarish, dreamlike ... this is Witkin, a mass of contradictions capable of stirring so many mixed emotions that you may find yourself feeling a bit dizzy or queasy or struck mute in some sort of hypnotic trance. These photos are not to be ignored. They demand you to either look away and hide your head beneath a pillow as you struggle to erase them from your memory (good luck) or stare transfixed as their obscene beauty pierces your soul and leaves its indelible mark. Either way, honey, you are doomed - but in such a wickedly wonderful way.
Witkin makes no apologies for his art nor should he. He is a loathe it or love it kind of master surrealist who layers one assault to reason upon another. The freakish and ethereal images that live in his photos belong to an alien world as much as they exist in this one and in us. It doesn't necessarily take a brave heart to enjoy his work but it does take one that is willing to accept that beauty is capable of thriving even in the inkiest black regions of decay or disfigurement; it dances there, haloed in its own light, while waiting for us to join it.
Art that is capable of eliciting such strong emotions is worthy of our attention and the fight to preserve it.
Rating: 1
Summary: A Very Sad Book
Comment: This is a book about a sad man who choses to photograph dead babies and corpses.
Rating: 5
Summary: Very Highly Recommended - Biggest Visual Impact
Comment: I appreciate Joel Peter Witkin's photos for a few years, before I can actually own this book finally. This book makes my experience complete.
A comprehensive collection of Joel-Peter Witkin's work, which belongs to the dark side of human. The careful composition of human body, objects and background, sometimes with cross-reference to classical paintings, invites a surreal, poetic, and miserable feeling.
If you only think that his photos are terrible, you need more time and more patience to read his images, through understanding. Extract from what Witkin said - 'When people see my work, there is no 'grey area' of response. What they experience is either love or hate.'
For all photography books I have ever read, this one is the most visual impacting ! Joel Peter Witkin's work is inspiring, original, and creative.
Very highly recommended, if you want to look into our human side.
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Title: The Bone House by Joel-Peter Witkin, Jack Woody ISBN: 094409256X Publisher: Twin Palms Pub Pub. Date: 01 November, 1998 List Price(USD): $75.00 |
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Title: Joel-Peter Witkin by Eugenia Parry ISBN: 0714840564 Publisher: Phaidon Press Inc. Pub. Date: 05 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: Disciple & Master by Joel-Peter Witkin, Pierre Borhan ISBN: 1584180218 Publisher: Fotofolio Pub. Date: 30 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $50.00 |
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Title: Mutter Museum: Of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia by Gretchen Worden ISBN: 0922233241 Publisher: Blast Books Pub. Date: December, 2002 List Price(USD): $50.00 |
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Title: Harms Way: Lust & Madness, Murder & Mayhem: A Book of Photographs by Joel-Peter Witkin ISBN: 0944092284 Publisher: Twin Palms Pub Pub. Date: October, 1994 List Price(USD): $60.00 |
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