Harms Way: Lust & Madness; Murder & Mayhem. [A Book of Photographs Edited by Joel-Peter Witkin]
by Witkin, Joel-Peter (ed.)
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine in jacket.
- ISBN 10
- 0944092284
- ISBN 13
- 9780944092286
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About This Item
Santa Fe, NM: Twin Palms Publishers, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. Fine in jacket.. Large quarto. Unpaginated (approx. 150pp.). Black dust jacket lettered in white and decorated with raised spidery lines. Blind stamped black cloth. Illustrated throughout with vintage (rather gruesome) crime scene photos, medical conditions, eroticism and erotic deviance, and a fascination with hermaphrodites. Edition limited to 5000 copies. A fine, as new copy.
"Inevitable death and our agony to attain Utopia have made existence a form of pathology. We are left with the secret need for redemption which few of us will understand or witness. This need still lives in acts of love, courage and art. In the images included in this book it is found in the conjoined destinies of artist and subject, phantoms on either side of that curtain we call photography. Implicit in these photographs is the brutal extreme of their purpose and an intimation however distant to their makers that something was manifested beyond the event itself." Joel-Peter Witkin.
"Inevitable death and our agony to attain Utopia have made existence a form of pathology. We are left with the secret need for redemption which few of us will understand or witness. This need still lives in acts of love, courage and art. In the images included in this book it is found in the conjoined destinies of artist and subject, phantoms on either side of that curtain we call photography. Implicit in these photographs is the brutal extreme of their purpose and an intimation however distant to their makers that something was manifested beyond the event itself." Joel-Peter Witkin.
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- Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- Harms Way: Lust & Madness; Murder & Mayhem. [A Book of Photographs Edited by Joel-Peter Witkin]
- Author
- Witkin, Joel-Peter (ed.)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in jacket.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- ISBN 10
- 0944092284
- ISBN 13
- 9780944092286
- Publisher
- Twin Palms Publishers
- Place of Publication
- Santa Fe, NM
- Date Published
- 1994
- Keywords
- Mental disorders, homicide, diseases, eroticism, sexual deviancy, maladies, crime photos
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