Heres one of my favorite death-related photographers! Joel-Peter Witkin was born in 1939, and still makes work out of his studio in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Like a lot of creatives who make work about death, he witnessed a graphic incident at a young age. Accoding to Wikipedia, Witkin says his vision stems from seeing a little girl decapitated in an auto accident outside of his house when he was a child: It happened on a Sunday when my mother was escorting my twin brother and me down the steps of the tenement where we lived. We were going to church. While walking down the hallway to the entrance of the building, we heard an incredible crash mixed with screaming and cries for help. The accident involved three cars, all with families in them. Somehow, in the confusion, I was no longer holding my mothers hand. At the place where I stood at the curb, I could see something rolling from one of the overturned cars. It stopped at the curb where I stood. It was the head of a little girl. I bent down to touch the face, to speak to it -- but before I could touch it someone carried me away.
Posted on: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 15:42:14 +0000
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