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Joel-Peter Witkin: Selected Works 1974-2018

Fahey/Klein Gallery Los Angeles · Mid-City

Joel-Peter Witkin: Selected Works 1974–2018 brings together photographs spanning more than four decades of the artist’s career, from early landmark works to rare prints. Renowned for meticulously staged black-and-white tableaux, Witkin draws on religion, mythology, art history, and mortality to create images that challenge conventional ideas of beauty and the human body. Through hand-altered negatives and richly textured prints, the exhibition highlights one of contemporary photography’s most provocative and influential voices.

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  • Joel-Peter Witkin
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Joel-Peter Witkin

Joel-Peter Witkin (b. 1939, Brooklyn, New York) is an American photographer whose meticulously staged black-and-white images explore mortality, spirituality, identity, and the human body. Drawing on religious iconography, classical painting, and mythology, he transforms photography through hand-altered negatives and prints. His work has been featured in more than 150 solo exhibitions, including a retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum, and is held in the collections of MoMA, the Getty, the National Gallery of Art, the Centre Pompidou, the V&A, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.