Quarry OOP Joel-Peter Witkin's photographs are simultaneously

Joel-Peter Witkin's photographs are simultaneously loathsome and brilliant

november 1996

twelvetrees press

65 color plates

spectators and competitors are all a part of these pictures and dialogues

Quarry OOP Joel-Peter Witkin's photographs are simultaneouslyA Collection in Lieu of Memoirs Lincoln Kirstein's life in the arts spans two thirds of a century. Many of the artists he championed, often against great odds, are indispensible in our consideration of twenttieth century art today. In lieu of written memoirs, Lincoln Kirstein has commissioned the great works in his personal collection to be photographed in a remarkable series of eight by ten, four color transparencies. to these he has added extensive