Tuesday, 8 June 2010

Neo Catholic Macabre Artiste


Alexander McQueen described photographer Joel Peter Witkin as a 'Neo Catholic Macabre Artiste' and a keen influence on his work. Challenging, disturbing, perverse, Witkin's work centres on complex, classical religious scenes featuring what he viewed as society's outsiders: dwarves, transsexuals, hermaphrodites, the disabled and death.

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