Joel Peter Witkin
Witkin penned this capsule autobiography for a published collection of his work. This site also has a slideshow gallery of seven Witkin photographs.
deathrock
Cintra Wilson profiles photographer Joel Peter Witkin, whom she calls "the reigning king of deviant imagery -- indeed, the thinking Goth's favorite artist." A slideshow gallery with six Witkin photographs accompanies the article.
Salon (May 2000)
Zone Zero has excerpts from an interview with Joel Peter Witkin about photography, glass, morality and mortality, along with a slideshow gallery of ten Witkin photographs.
Zone Zero
Charles Mann reviews the work of Joel Peter Witkin, particularly his new collection The Bone House. This essay accompanies a new gallery entitled Love and Redemption with appropriately eerie QuickTime musical accompaniment.
Zone Zero
smog.net reprints a profile of Joel Peter Witkin by Richard B. Woodward which appeared originally in Vanity Fair in 1993. This site also features a thumbnailed gallery of eighteen Witkin photographs.
smog.net
Christa Palmer discusses the work of Joel Peter Witkin: "Anyone who has followed the tempest over NEA funding of scandalous artists such as Robert Mapplethorpe and Andres Serrano will be familiar with Witkin's images of deformed, scarred and tortured bodies. On closer examination, however, it is evident that Witkin, rather than seeking merely to shock, is passionately interested in the lives of the 'abnormal' and 'grotesque' people he photographs."
The Metropolitan (1997)
Kate VonderPorten interviews Joel Peter Witkin before an upcoming lecture at Arizona University. "The purpose of my individual life is to create a sense of purification of life. How we express ourselves should have meaning and be interesting. There is nothing worse than hollow or soulless people."
Arizona Daily Wildcat (Jan 2001)
The Edelman Gallery has six recent Witkin photographs reproduced and for sale online.
Edelman Gallery
A slideshow gallery of ten Witkin photographs here.
transformations
Chris Buck and Christine Alevizakis profile and interview Joel Peter Witkin about his life and art.
Photographer Interviews
Specimen Art has a slideshow gallery of Witkin photographs in postcard-size scans.
Specimen Art
