Joel- Peter Witkin – Heaven, Hell of Intersex, Transsexuals & Deformed People
Joel-Peter Witkin, Anna Akhmatova, Paris, 1998
Joel-Peter Witkin is an American photographer who lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. His work often deals with such themes as death, corpses, and various outsiders such as dwarves, transsexuals, intersex persons, and physically deformed people
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(Born September 13, 1939 – Joel Peter Witkin is 77 years old.)
Joel-Peter Witkin 
“A flamboyant creator, incredible story-teller and irresistible liar (his awakening to photography during a car accident that decapitated a little girl whose head fell into his arms probably didn’t exist, but never mind)’ a hallucinating culture, Joel, who lives in an Albuquerque ghetto (on a farm no less) has for 30 years been exploring the relationship between sacred and profane.”
See more and read JOEL-PETER WITKIN DAY: Heaven or Hell (Elizabeth Avedon Journal) here.
Las Meninas, New Mexico, from the “Twelve Photographs, 1993” book
Vienna Eye Phanthom, Philadelphia,1990