Joel-Peter Witkin

Modèle:Ébauche personne Modèle:Serie photo Joel-Peter Witkin (né le 13 septembre 1939 à Brooklyn, New York) est un photographe américain dont la côte est parmi les photographes contemporains les plus chers au monde.Il vit et travaille à Albuquerque, (Nouveau Mexique).Il est fasciné par les êtres aux caractéristiques physiques étranges, difformes et singulières qu'il recrute par petites annonces pour créér ses photos.

Son photos sont des mises en scène soignées des portraits humains mélés à des objets dans un assemblage baroque, souvent retravaillé (griffures sur le négatif etc) . Il crée une ambiance qui renforçe 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. »

EXPOSITIONS PERSONNELLES (sélection)

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. Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco. 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, Hungary

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, Scottland Interkamera, Prague, République Tchèque

1996 David Floria Gallery, Aspen Colorado, USA Megan Fox Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 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, Goteborg, Sweden 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, Hotel Sully, Paris Centre d'Art, Pärno, Estonie Centre Portuges de Fotografia, Lisbonne, Portugal Hellenic Union, Athènes

EXPOSiTIONS DE GROUPE (sélection)

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.

1996 Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA, Neo masters La Maison Européenne de la Photographie

1995 Interkamera Photo Festival, Prague

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'Elysée, 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

PUBLICATIONS (sélection)

" Joel Peter Witkin, œuvres récentes 1999-2000" , Baudoin Lebon, Paris, 2000

"The Bone House ", Twins Palms Publishers, New Mexico, 1998

" Joel-Peter Witkin, A Retrospective, (Monographie), Scalo/D.A.P., New York, 1995

" Harms Way ", Twelve Tree Press, Santa Fe, NM, 1994

" Gods of Hearth and Heaven ", Twelve Tree Press, Pasadena, CA, 1991

" Joel-Peter Witkin ", Photo-Poche, Volume 49, publié par le Centre National de la Photographie, Paris, France, 1991

" Joel-Peter Witkin ", Baudoin Lebon, Paris, France, 1991

" Joel-Peter Witkin ", Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France, 1989

" Joel-Peter Witkin ", Museum für Fotografie und Zeitkunst, Bremen, Allemagne, 1989

" Joel-Peter Witkin ", Centro de Arte Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid, Espagne, 1988

" Masterpieces of Medical Photography ", Twelve Tree Press, Santa Fe, NM, 1987

" Joel-Peter Witkin ", Twelve Tree Press, Pasadena, CA, 1985

" Joel-Peter Witkin : Forty Photographs ", San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA, 1985

PRIX (sélection)

1996 The Augustus Saint Gardens Medal, the Cooper Union.

1992 National Endowment for the Arts, Photography Fellowship

1991 The French Minister of Culture, awarded by Jack Lang, thetitle " Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres ".

1988International Center of Photography Award The Cooper Union Distinguished Alumni Citation

1986 National Edowment for the Arts, Photography Fellowship Maine Photographic Book Competition, Book of the Year (Twelvetrees Press Monograph)

1984 National Endowment for the Arts, Photography Fellowship

1982 National Endowment for the Arts, Photography Fellowship

1977 Ford Foundation Grant

1978 Ford Foundation Grant

1974 CAPS Grant in Photography, New York

Liens Externes

• Biographie et anecdotes de Joel-Peter WITKIN
• Images de Witkin