Joel-Peter Witkin
Autor/a de Witkin
Sobre l'autor
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Obres de Joel-Peter Witkin
Harms Way: Lust & Madness, Murder & Mayhem : A Book of Photographs (1873) — Editor; Introducció — 65 exemplars
Northwest Annual: Multiple Works 02 1 exemplars
Influències 1 exemplars
Northwest Annual: Multiple Works 04 1 exemplars
Northwest Annual: Multiple Works 03 1 exemplars
Northwest Annual: Jury Selection 07 1 exemplars
Northwest Annual: Jury Selection 01 1 exemplars
Northwest Annual: Multiple Works 01 1 exemplars
Northwest Annual: Jury Selection 06 1 exemplars
Northwest Annual: Jury Selection 05 1 exemplars
Northwest Annual: Jury Selection 04 1 exemplars
Northwest Annual: Jury Selection 03 1 exemplars
Northwest Annual: Jury Selection 02 1 exemplars
Witkin 1 exemplars
A Witkin triptych : three essays 1 exemplars
Obres associades
Take My Advice: Letters to the Next Generation from People Who Know a Thing or Two (2002) — Col·laborador — 45 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Data de naixement
- 1939-09-13
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Lloc de naixement
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Llocs de residència
- Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
- Educació
- Cooper Union (School of Art)
University of New Mexico - Professions
- photographer
- Biografia breu
- son of Max and Mary (Pellegrino) Witkin
Membres
Ressenyes
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 31
- També de
- 3
- Membres
- 454
- Popularitat
- #54,064
- Valoració
- 4.4
- Ressenyes
- 4
- ISBN
- 21
- Llengües
- 4
- Preferit
- 2
Aesthetically, though, I see the less well-known Phillips as being closer to Witkin. What makes Witkin by far one of my favorite fotographers is not just his attn to outsiderness, it's also his minute attn to details of texture, arrangement & color. He's a still-life fotographer par excellence. His "Harvest" revisits Arcimboldo's wonderful "Spring" & "Summer" paintings. Witkin's work is rife w/ awesome reworkings of historical artworks: Botticelli's "The Birth of Venus", eg, cd be renamed "The Birth of HermAphrodite". Instead, Witkin calls it "Gods of Earth and Heaven". His "The Raft of George W. Bush" references Théodore Géricault's painting "The Raft of Medusa". This latter cd be sd to be a critique of the abandonment of the proletariat to die during a shipwreck - a theme later developed in Hans Werner Henze's oratorio Das Floss der Medusa Für Che Guevara. Both Phillips & Witkin use sepia tinting & simulated aging (distressing) to evoke times past.
Despite any sensationalism that might be associated w/ Witkin's work, I find it 1st & foremost evocative of LIFE & NATURE. Instead of a Nazi sanitization of the gene pool intended to narrow down possibilities to homogenized culture, Witkin presents life (& death) in a full glory of variety & richness. There's no nastiness here, IMO, life is shown as something that grows & mutates - not as a jungle that 'needs' paving over as a parking-lot - rather as a jungle from wch the marvelous erupts & is then reabsorbed into.
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