Joel-Peter Witkin
- Established
- 1939
- Origin
- Albuquerque, New Mexico
Joel-Peter Witkin is renowned as a creator of elaborately staged and often erotically charged scenes exploring grand themes of religion, sex, and mortality. His carefully constructed photographic tableaux draw upon a rich body of sources, including art history, literature, and mythology, and often are populated by social outcasts, pariahs, and human oddities. His darkly fantastic vision is shaped by deliberate manipulation of the photographic surface.