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Joel-Peter Witkin on the Beauty in the Grotesque

With an exhibition at baudoin lebon in Paris, another one at Bruce Silverstein in New York, and work on view at the Louvre, Joel-Peter Witkin speaks about his creative process.

In Joel-Peter Witkin’s world, death is not to be feared. Instead, there is beauty in the macabre, and some humor there too, as evidenced from his lifelong career creating photographs that evoke a range of reactions from outrage to wonder. 

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