Joel peter witkin in interview magazine

This is the 2nd interview with Joel-Peter Witkin on this program, the fist one can be found here.

Note: All the images discussed in order in the interview can be seen here.

Joel-Peter Witkin was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1939.

In 1959, Edward Steichen, head of the department of photography at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), selected one of Witkin’s photographs for its permanent collection when Witkin is 16 years old.
Enlists in the U.S. Army as a photographer from 1961-1964.

In 1974 he receives a B.F.A.

This interview originally appeared in Musée Magazine's Issue No. 12 - Controversy.

This interview originally appeared in Musée Magazine's Issue No. 12 - Controversy.

Joel-Peter Witkin is a photographer whose images of the human condition are undeniably powerful.

Joel Peter Witkin elucidates some of the fascinating paradoxes surrounding his photography.

Joel Peter-Witkin: OK, well, my photographs are not “morbid.” Morbid means unhealthy and deformed.

An unaggressive man, with your values, should be attracted by the photography of Joel Peter Witkin.

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sculpture from The Cooper Union, the same year awarded a fellowship in writing from
Columbia University. In 1976 he receives a M.A. in Photography from the University of New
Mexico, and then 1986 he receives a M.F.A.

from the University of New Mexico. He has won
numerous awards including four National Endowments in photography and the I.C.P. Infinity Award. His photographs have been exhibited internationally and are included in many museum collection