num_pages: 125
description: Joel-Peter Witkin (b.1939) is a major artist whose work shocks but also provokes and questions. In his examination of the human condition, Witkin reinterprets some of the great works of Western art and photographic history in his own terms. Although controversial, his work has been exhibited worldwide and won numerous awards. Other artists in this series Eugene Atget, Mathew Brady, Wynn Bullock, Julia Margaret Cameron, Joan Fontcuberta, David Goldblatt, Nan Goldin, Graciela Iturbide, Andre Kertesz, Dorothea Lange, Mary Ellen Mark, Joel Meyerowitz, Boris Mikhailov, Lisette Model, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Eadweard Muybridge, Eugene Richards, W. Eugene Smith, Shomei Tomatsu,
language: English
title: Joel-Peter Witkin
titlecomplete: Joel-Peter Witkin (Phaidon 55s)
genres: Art, Nonfiction, Photography
ratings_count: 175
series: Photo Poche
publisher: Phaidon Inc Ltd