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Joel-Peter Witkin: Centre National de la Photographie, Paris (1989)
French first edition collection of Joel-Peter Witkin’s photography, with burgundy silk cloth over hardboards, debossed cross cover design, high-grade paper stock, translucent red vellum-style overlay sheets, and black ribbon page marker.
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Joel-Peter Witkin: Centre National de la Photographie, Paris (1989)
A first edition (France) of a curation of work by famed and controversial photo-artist Joel-Peter Witkin, whose fascination with the macabre, human deformity and death began when he was a small child in Brooklyn and witnessed a young girl decapitated in a car accident, her severed head rolling in front of him on the street.
Witkin would later state that he instinctively reached down to touch her face, but was pulled back by an adult.
His work as a photographer has been celebrated globally among various art circles for its blend of fine art photography sensibilities and use of complex tableaux vivants that channel religious themes, but his use of corpses and individuals with dwarfism, intersex genitalia and various deformities has also caused great rancor in more mainstream circles.
This French collection features a burgundy silk cloth cover (over hardboards) with debossed cross cover design as well as a high-grade paper stock and red vellum-like translucent advance cover sheets between photos as overlays.
A black ribbon page marker is also included in the spine.
Condition: Very Good, some age spotting on cover.
