Description
Joel-Peter Witkin (b. 1939) is one of the most provocative and influential photographers of the 20th century. His baroque tableaux explore taboo, mortality, and the grotesque — often constructed using bodies, body parts, and religious iconography. Drawing from art history, pathology, and myth, Witkin’s staged images reflect a deep fascination with beauty found in the marginal, the abject, and the surreal. His work has been exhibited and collected globally, and he remains an icon of transgressive, visionary photography.
Harms Way: Lust & Madness, Murder & Mayhem is a curated archive of rare and disturbing photographs from the 19th and 20th centuries, hand-selected and introduced by Witkin. The images — drawn from psychiatric hospitals, forensic files, freak shows, and anonymous portraiture — are haunting, historical, and deeply human. A singular volume of vernacular horror and outsider art history, and — yet again — another amazing production by Jack Woody and company.
A must-have for collectors of macabre photography, outsider art, or those drawn to the dark, uncanny corners of visual history.
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