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Witkin & Witkin: Joel-Peter Witkin, a Photographer; Jerome Witkin, a Painter by Trisha Ziff (ISBN: 9786078460052)
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Witkin & Witkin: Joel-Peter Witkin, a Photographer; Jerome Witkin, a Painter Hardcover - 2013
by Trisha Ziff
From the publisher
- The ultimate guide to the work of two major American artists- A collection of biographical vignettes that reveal the influences and concerns of two of the most recognized and respected artists of our time Witkin & Witkin is an intimate and striking book that brings together, for the first time, the work of two American artists: a photographer and a painter that not only share DNA - they are identical twins - but also uncanny thematic parallels. Through different voices, testimonies of the people closest to the brothers, both personally and professionally, the Witkin story is retold by family members, partners, models, students, collectors and promoters of their work. Text in English and Spanish.
Details
- Title Witkin & Witkin: Joel-Peter Witkin, a Photographer; Jerome Witkin, a Painter
- Author Trisha Ziff
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 280
- Volumes 1
- Language SPA
- Publisher Trilce Ediciones
- Date 2013
- ISBN 9786078460052 / 6078460056
About the author
Joel-Peter Witkin is an American photographer who has received many awards including several from the National Endowment for the Arts agency, a Ford Foundation Grant and the International Center of Photography Fourth Annual Award. He was decorated with a Chevalier Des Arts et des Lettres in France. His work is held in major collections including Bibliothque Nationale, Paris, France; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; The J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, CA; Centro de Arte Reina Sofa, Madrid, Spain and George Eastman House, Rochester. Jerome Witkin is an American painter who has been recognised with several awards including a Pulitzer Traveling Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship. His work is included in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Uffizi, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Hirshhorn Museum. Trisha Ziff is a British curator, writer and filmmaker. Other books she has edited are: Still War, Photographs From the North of Ireland (1989); Between Worlds, Contemporary Mexican Photography (1990); Distant Relations: A Dialogue among Chicano, Irish and Mexican Artists (1996);Quietscapes (2004); Che Guevara, Revolutionary and Icon (2006); and 101 Tragedies of Enrique Metinides (2012).
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