Joel-Peter Witkin If photography is the art of fixing a shadow, glass is the medium that transfers shadows onto film. For Joel-Peter Witkin, whose elaborate tableaux reverberate with the extreme conditions of life and death, glass holds powerful associations. Oldenberg, says Witkin, once described glass as 'lightning trapped in sand.' A day before the New York opening of Witkin's ...

Joel-Peter Witkin Female King, New Mexico, 1997 Poussin in Hell, Paris, 1999 Story from a Book, Paris, 1999 Humor and Fear, New Mexico, 1999 The Eggs of MyAmnesia, Rome, 1996 Abundance, Prague, 1997 Joel-Peter Witkin is a photographer whose images of the human condition are undeniably powerful. For more than twenty years he has pursued his interest in spirituality and how it impacts the physical ...

A History of Truth High and Mighty: Photographer Joel-Peter Witkin borrows from 19th-century painter James Ensor and poses a 400-pound woman for 'Female King' (1997). Photographer Joel-Peter Witkin borrows from the history of painting to reveal the potential of horror and suffering in the human condition By Christa Palmer At first glance, photographer Joel-Peter Witkin's most recent works, now ...