Joel Peter Witkin at Pac in Milan

Visit Witkin at Pac in Milan until 27th April 2008.

Witkin is born in Brooklin in 1939.
When he was only 6 years old, he saw a child’s head roll to his feet. This is a dramatic but lucid account and almost inspired. This experience taught him that with photography in some way he should have shown the death of another person.
His photographic career is dedicated to the meticoulous search for perfect images which are never simple photos, but actualsets, collages of elements aimed at constructing a meaning, which each time in the artist’s own feeling.

Links:
Joel Peter Witkin on Wikipedia