Bio
Joel-Peter Witkin is one of the leading photographers of our time, famous for his provocative and controversial works exploring death, religion, myth, and allegory. Indebted to the Victorian photographic traditions of studio-based tableau and photomontage, Witkin’s meticulously staged scene revisits Gustave Courbet’s celebrated Studio of the Painter. Like Courbet’s painting, Witkin’s photograph is a meditation on the studio as a meeting place of unrealities.
Statement
“I believe that all my photographs are incarnations, representing the form and substance of what my mind sees and attempts to understand.” – Joel-Peter Witkin
