Joel Peter Witkin

In this post I would like to present the very interesting and sarcastic work of witkin, an American photographer born in 1939 in Brooklyn. His photos are mostly complex tableaux reminding classical pieces. He uses the concept of dead bodies and questions the existence. He also claims that the difficulties in his family were an influence for his work. Some of Witkin's works, namely those with corpses in them, have had to be created in Mexico in order to get around restrictive US laws. Because of the transgressing nature of the contents of his pictures, his works have been labeled exploitative and have sometimes shocked public opinion.