- Joel-Peter Witkin
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Joel-Peter Witkin (né le 13 septembre 1939 à Brooklyn, New York) est un photographe américain.
Il vit et travaille à Albuquerque, (Nouveau-Mexique).Sommaire
L'œuvre
Witkin est fasciné par les êtres aux caractéristiques physiques étranges, difformes et singulières, qu'il recrute par petites annonces pour créer ses photos. Celles-ci sont des mises en scène soignées de portraits de personnes mêlées à des objets dans un assemblage baroque et hétéroclite. Les photos sont souvent retravaillées (griffures sur le négatif, etc.).
Witkin crée une ambiance qui renforce l'aspect morbide des sujets et la poésie de la prise de vue.- Citations
- « Quand les gens vous prennent pour un monstre, il n'y a qu'une chose à faire : dépasser leurs attentes. »
- « … je sais que le fondement de tout mon travail repose sur le désespoir de l’âme. Mes bienfaiteurs photographiques sont morts. Je vis pour créer des images représentant la lutte pour la rédemption des âmes. »
- Prix
Le prix record de Witkin se situe à 43 700 $, pour une photographie intitulée Le Baiser, vendue le 9 octobre 1997, chez Christie's à New York.
Expositions (sélection)
Expositions personnelles- 1969 The Moore College of Art, Philadelphie
- 1972 The Cooper Union School of Fine Arts, New York
- 1976 The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, Nouveau-Mexique
- 1980
- Projects Studio One, New York
- The Cooper Union School of Fine Arts, New York
- 1982
- Galerie Texbraun, Paris
- San Francisco Camera Work, San Francisco
- 1983
- Museum voor Acutele Kunst, Hasselt, Belgique
- Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
- Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
- Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City
- Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta
- Hardison Fine Arts Gallery, New York
- 1984
- Paul Cave Gallery, Philadelphie
- Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
- Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York
- 1985
- Forty Photographs, Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
- The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia college, Chicago
- The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York ; Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee
- American Images : Photography 1945-1980, Barbican Gallery, Londres
- Aspen Museum, Aspen
- Institute Franco-Americain, Paris
- Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York
- The Unique Vision of Peter-Joel Witkin, Galerie Watari, Tokyo
- Butler Gallery, Houston
- G.Ray Hawkins Gallery, Los Angeles
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (travelling, catalog)
- Gallery Texbraun, Grand Palais, Paris, France - FIAC'85 (catalog)
- 1986
- The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
- Anderes Ufer, Berlin
- Hochschule der Kunst, Berlin
- The Tartt Gallery, Washington, D.C.
- Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe
- Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta
- Galerie Baudoin Lebon, Paris
- Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago
- Brooklyn Museum of Art, NY
- 1987
- University of Illinois at Carbondale, Carbondale
- La Jolla Museum of Contemporay Art, La Jolla
- Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
- Wright State University, Dayton
- Pace/McGill Gallery, New York
- Watari Galerie, Tokyo
- Galerie Baudoin Lebon, Paris
- 1988
- Tartt Gallery, Washington, D.C.
- Hippolyte Photographic Gallery, Helsinki
- Biennale de Rotterdam
- Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid
- Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston
- Brent Sikkema Gallery, Boston
- 1989
- Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York
- Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles
- Centre National de la Photographie, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
- Dart Gallery, Chicago
- Museum für Fotografie und Zeitkunst, Brema
- Encontros de Fotografia, Coimbra
- Palau Sollerie, Palma, Espagne
- 1991
- Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
- Pace/macGill, New York
- Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles
- Hamiltons Gallery, Londres
- Galerie Baudoin Lebon, Paris
- The Museum of Modern Art, Haifa
- 1992
- Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta
- University of Illinois, Chapaign-Urbana
- Picture Photo Space, Osaka
- Fotograficentrum, Stockholm
- Studio of Young Artists Association, Budapest, Hongrie
- 1993
- Musée de Cahors, Cahors
- Galerie De La Tour, Basilea
- Pace/MacGill, New York
- Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
- Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago
- Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles
- Picture Photo Space, Osaka
- 1994
- Galerie De La Tour, Basilea
- Galerie La Tour, Amsterdam
- Galerie Mokka, Reykjavik
- 1995
- Salomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NY
- Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
- Pace/MacGill Gallery, NY
- Galerie Baudoin Lebon, Paris, France
- Museo d'Arte Contemporaneo, Rivoli
- Stills Gallery, Edinburg, Ecosse
- Interkamera, Prague, République tchèque
- 1996
- David Floria Gallery, Aspen Colorado, USA
- Megan Fox Gallery, Santa Fe, Nouveau-Mexique, USA
- Fototology Gallery, Milan, Italie
- Encontros de Fotografia Coimbra, Portugal
- Les Rencontres d'Arles, Arles, France
- 1997
- Pace Wildenstein MacGill, N.Y.C., USA
- Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, USA
- Fahey/Klein, Los Angeles, USA
- Pace Wildenstein, Los Angeles, USA
- Galerie Baudoin Lebon, Paris, France
- Foto Massan, Göteborg, Suède
- Galerie Objekte, Munich, Allemagne
- 1998
- Galerie de Lege Ruimte, Gand
- Cultuur Centrum, Brugge
- Hanlim Museum, Seoul
- 1999
- Santa Fe Art Musem, Santa Fe, USA
- Camera Work Galerie, Berlin
- Slovenska Madrona Galerie, Bratislava, Slovénie
- Pace Wildenstein Gallery, Tokyo, Japon
- 2000
- Galerie Baudoin Lebon, Paris
- Witkin, disciple et maître, Patrimoine photographique, Hôtel Sully, Paris
- Centre d'Art, Pärno, Estonie
- Centre Portuges de Fotografia, Lisbonne, Portugal
- Hellenic Union, Athènes
Expositions de groupe- 1959 Great Photographs from the Museum Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
- 1968 Two Americans, University of Manchester, Manchester
- 1969 Museum of Modern Art, « Paintings for City Walls », NY
- 1970 Musée du Louvre, Les Halles de Balthazar, « World Environments », Paris, France
- 1972 Curator Choice, The Witkin Gallery, New York
- 1973 The IX International Biennial of Photography, Lisbon
- 1976 Exhibition of American Photography, Andromeda Gallery Ltd., New York
- 1977
- Photoerotica, Camera Gallery, San Francisco
- 18 CAPS Photographers, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut
- Soho Center for Visual Arts (CAPS)
- Light Work Gallery, Syracuse, NY
- 1978 Contemporary Photographers from New Mexico, Arizona State University, Tempe
- 1980
- Contemporary Photographers of New Mexico, The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago
- Eccentricities, California Institute of the Arts, Schools of Arts and design, Valence
- 1981
- Photographer as Printmaker, Ferens Art Gallery, Hull
- The Makers, San Francisco Museum of Modern art, San Francisco
- Marked Photographs - 15 Photographers, Robert Samuel Gallery, New York
- 1982
- Androgyne in Art, Emily Lowe Gallery, Hofstra University, Hempstead
- The Erotic in Photography, Cameravision, Los Angeles
- Form, freud and Feeling, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
- Staged Photo Events, Rotterdamse Kunstichting, Rotterdam
- New American Photography, Galerie Texbraun, Paris
- New New York, Fine Arts Gallery, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
- Tendances Actuelles. Mois de la Photo, Galerie Texbraun, Paris
- 1983
- Images Fabriquées, Musée national d'art moderne Centre G. Pompidou, Paris
- Personal Choice. A Celebration of Twentieth-Century Photographs, Victoria and Albert Museum, Londres
- Ashes to Ashes, Vision of Death, Alternative Museum, New York
- 1984
- Content, A Contemporary Focus, 1974-1984, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C.
- The Human Condition, San Francisco Museum of Modern art, San Francisco
- The Directed Image, G.H. Dalsheimer Gallery, Baltimore
- Radical Photography, The Bizarre Image, Nexus Gallery, Atlanta
- Fifth Anniversary Exhibition, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Biennale, CA
- 1985
- The Sam Wagstaff Collection, International Center of Photographgy, New York
- American Images : Photography 1945-1980, Barbican Gallery, Londres
- Whitney Biennial Exhibition, The Whitney Museum of American, New York
- Images of Excellence, IBM Gallery of Science and Art, New York ; International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, Rochester
- Extending Perimeters of Twentieth-Century Photography, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
- Signs of the Times : Some Recurring Motifs in Twentieth-Century Photography, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
- 1986
- The sacred and the Sacrilegious : Iconographic Image in Photography, Photographic Ressource Center Boston University, Boston
- Sacred Images in Secular Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
- Photographic fictions, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
- Photograpy a Facet of Modernism, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
- The Human Form, Centre national de la photographie, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
- Itinéraires contemporains : exploration du médium-détournements. Mois de la Photo, Galerie Baudoin Lebon, Paris
- Théâtre des Réalités, Les Caves Sainte-Croix, Metz ; Centre National de la Photographie, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
- 1987
- Twentieth-Century master American Photographs 1910 to 1986, Whitney Equitable, New York
- Repulsion : Aesthetics of the Grotesque, Alternative Museum, New York
- Photography and Art ; Interaction Since 1946, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
- The Photographic Print, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
- True Stories & Photofictions, Foto Gallery, Cardiff
- 1988
- Fabrication, Harvard University, Cambridge
- Apochryphal images, Metronom, Barcellone
- Life Magazine's Celebration of 150 Years of Photography, Nikon House, New York
- Splendeurs et misères du corps. Mois de la Photo, Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris
- University Art Galleries, Wright State University, Dayton
- 1989
- The Photography of Invention, National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C.
- On the Art of Fixing a Shadow. One Hundred and Fifty Years of Photography ? The National Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
- 1990 The Body in Question, Burden Gallery/Aperture Foundation, New York
- 1992
- Objects O Trouves d'artiste, Galerie Urbi eu Orbi, Paris
- The Crucifixion through the Modern Eye, Hearst Art Gallery, Saint Mary's College of California, Morgana
- Photoghraphie/Sculpture, Centre National de la Photographie, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
- Quotations, Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, Delaware
- 1993
- Mexico Through Foreign Eyes (1850-1990), Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico city
- Magicians of Light. Photographs from the National Gallery of Canada, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
- 1994
- Still Pictures/Still Life, University of Rhode Island, Providence
- Photo Dessin/Dessin Photo, Espace Van Gogh, Arles
- After Art : Rethinking 150 Years of Photography, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle
- The Camera i. Photographic Self-Portraits from the Audrey and Sydney Irmus Collection, Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles
- 1995 Interkamera Photo Festival, Prague
- 1996
- Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA, Neo masters
- La Maison Européenne de la Photographie
- 1997
- David Adamson Gallery, Washington D.C The Mythic Image
- Sarah Morthland Gallery, New York,NY, Rear View
- Hayward Gallery, Londres, Angleterre, The Quick and the Dead
- Koldo Mixtelena Kulturunea, San Sebastian, Espagne, Tranvestism identity in the arts
- 1998
- Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Genève, Corps à vif - Art et Anatomie
- Photographic Center of Skopelos, Skopelos (Grêce), The Body in the Mirror- Photography Today
- Galerie Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris, Autour du sport
- Passage de Retz, Paris, Fétiches - Fétichismes
- 1999
- Postmodern Heretics, Siena Heights University, Adrian, Michigan
- The Missing Link, Kunstmuseum, Bern, Suisse
- The Elton John Collection, High Museum, Atlanta, USA
- Love and Desire, between Neoclassicism and Neuroticism, Photology, Milan, Italie
- Rattling, the Frale, the Photographic Space JPW, Unpublished and Unseen Work, Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe
- 2000
- Animal, Musée Bourdelle, Paris
- Drôles de bestioles, Centre photographique d'Ile de France, Pontault-Combault
- Le siècle du corps, Musée de l'Élysée, Lausanne, Suisse
- Pourquoi faites-vous cette tête-là ?, Galerie Sabine Puget, Paris
- Ecce Homo, Kunsthal, Rotterdam, Pays-Bas
- D'après l'Antique, Musée du Louvre, Paris
- 2007
- « Les relations de Monsieur Wiertz : Wiertz/Witkin », maison de la culture, Namur, Belgique
Publications (sélection)
- Joel-Peter Witkin: Forty Photographs, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA, 1985
- Masterpieces of Medical Photography, Twelve Tree Press, Santa Fe, NM, 1987
- Joel-Peter Witkin, Centro de Arte Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid, Espagne, 1988
- Joel-Peter Witkin, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France, 1989
- Joel-Peter Witkin, Baudoin Lebon, Paris, France, 1991
- Joel-Peter Witkin, Photo-Poche, Volume 49, publié par le Centre national de la photographie, Paris, France, 1991
- Gods of Hearth and Heaven, Twelve Tree Press, Pasadena, CA, 1991
- Harms Way, Twelve Tree Press, Santa Fe, NM, 1994
- Joel-Peter Witkin, A Retrospective, (Monographie), Scalo/D.A.P., New York, 1995
- The Bone House, Twins Palms Publishers, New Mexico, 1998
- Joel-Peter Witkin, œuvres récentes 1999-2000, Baudoin Lebon, Paris, 2000
- Les Relations de Monsieur Wiertz : Wiertz-Witkin, un tête à tête surprenant,Somogy, Paris, 2007 ; Service de la culture de la province de Namur, 2007
Distinctions
- Prix (sélection)
- 1974 CAPS Grant in Photography, New York
- 1978 Ford Foundation Grant
- 1977 Ford Foundation Grant
- 1982 National Endowment for the Arts, Photography Fellowship
- 1984 National Endowment for the Arts, Photography Fellowship
- 1986 National Edowment for the Arts, Photography Fellowship — Maine Photographic Book Competition, Book of the Year (Twelvetrees Press Monograph)
- 1988 International Center of Photography Award — The Cooper Union Distinguished Alumni Citation
- 1992 National Endowment for the Arts, Photography Fellowship
- 1996 The Augustus Saint Gardens Medal, the Cooper Union
- Décoration
- En 1991, fait chevalier des Arts et des Lettres, par le ministre français de la Culture, Jack Lang.
Références
Galeries
Lien externe
- (fr) Biographie
Catégories :- Photographe plasticien
- Photographe américain
- Photographe de nu
- Naissance à Brooklyn
- Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres
- Naissance en 1939
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