Dripping

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This is a really cool picture.

I had to google Joel-Peter Witkin. I have never heard of him. Very powerful work! Some of it reminded me of Robert Steven Connett a bit, but a lot more refined.

Nauseous

Sat 06-04-2005

This is a fantastic picture! Would be great as a book or album cover!! great shot.

silkster40z@aol.com

Sat 06-04-2005

One of your best - extremely creepy.

RoxieZ

Fri 06-10-2005

It reminds of the video for 'Closer' .

Nauseous

Fri 06-10-2005

Ha! I was just going to say very NIN or Marilyn Manson-ish.

Love it.

Shaina

Tue 06-14-2005

Now you know why I dont drink from a faucet.

Ryan

Tue 06-21-2005

Awesome. So haunted.

fashionpage88@yahoo.com

Sun 07-03-2005

Yep. I think I shall buy bottled water from now on. Pics like this make me wonder what unknown deposits WE are ingesting from waterfaucets on a daily basis.

Twug

Sun 08-28-2005

Don't have to worry about osteoporosis after this, though . . .

Lynne

Tue 08-30-2005

reminds me a little of h.r. giger, maybe? with a tiny bit of patrick woodroffe mixed in. or at least it looks like a base of one of their surreal works. does that make any sense? if not, please forgive me. i am an unfortunate sufferer of severe adhd.

AngelWolf13

Tue 09-20-2005

E-mail this photo to Joel Peter Witkin, I dare you.

kevin douglas

Sun 10-09-2005

You say that as if you totally glossed over the comment Motts wrote.

Matt

Sun 10-09-2005

I am sorry, maybe it is the blonde hair but, I don't get the point ofthe dare.

Someone PLEASE fill me in.

...and NOt like that, I mean with info.

~Me

Mon 10-10-2005

Hya, ~Me! If you look on the net, it appears Mr. Witkin is a photographer of the morbid. Dead bodies and parts of dead bodies seem to be popular subjects of the artist. I guess, some people are into that sort of thing. It could induce nightmares for me, if I delved too deeply. I will just stick with our Mr. Motts. He makes me happy as a clam!

Twug

Mon 10-10-2005

Twug,
I know he is a photographer of morbid things, but I don't get the dare itself, Why would it be risky to email him this shot?

~Me

Mon 10-10-2005

Joel Peter Witkin is amazing.

Angela

Wed 10-12-2005

Joel Peter Witkin frightens me. I like morbid stuff, but he is just plain too morbid. His is the stuff of nightmares.

Twug

Wed 10-12-2005

Yeah, I took a look at some of his stuff...he's talented and artistic, its just not my medium. Stuff like that usually doesn't bother me extremely much, but that really did haunt me. What I wonder is where he gets his, er, "props."

Barbara

Wed 10-12-2005

Barbara, I skimmed some of the info on Mr. Witkin. If I remember correctly ( after I hastily exited one of his sites while screaming), he gets permission from people working at morgues (not in our country) to use their...um..."people" for props. He may be brilliant to some, but his work leaves a me with a mental bad taste.

Twug

Thu 10-13-2005

In some ways Witkin's work is comparable to Damien Hurst and others in the pickled cow business... art to shock, for the sake of it in many cases. Witkin's stuff is actually quite clever in some instances but unneccessarily icky in many more. IMO his best work is the photoshopped images involving live (hence consenting) people not the charnel-house, gut-churning yuckiness... However unlike Hurst Witkin actually seems to have a talent...

Ok I'll shut up and stop trying to be an amateur art critic now ;-D

rich_edwards79

Thu 10-13-2005

Yes....*sob* ~Me left me. Me left ~Me. I'm so confused. Anyway, Rich, the work of Mr. Witkin's that I was lucky enough to have been exposed to? If I had to give it a name, I would call it "Corpse Pornography". Motts, I promise, cross my heart, I will not stray again!!! Rich, I LOVE reading your comments, though. Your words are poetry to my ears, as the village, town, city-wanna-be, that I reside in is not possessive of a lot of culture.

Twug

Thu 10-13-2005

This has to be one of my favorite shots. Thanks for turning it into a wallpaper =)

Ack

Wed 11-09-2005

No, its a fan-frickin-tastic picture! YIPYIP!!!

LoudLove

Mon 02-20-2006

My favorite Witkin. 2 severed male heads kissing:

http://www.correntical.../1982-Le_baisier.jpg

Danny Being Manny

Sat 04-08-2006

that was gross, I should not have looked but my curiosity got me, ewwwww

rtotten

Sat 04-08-2006

The link listed by Danny Being Manny is my favorite also. I made the same mistake thinking it was two heads when in fact it is only one man's head. It was split down the back leaving only the front face attatched and then laid out to give the look of two kissing. Makes me love it more.

UTU

Wed 08-23-2006

wow uve really captured his style!
xoxoxox

miilii

Sun 09-24-2006

You can try, but you can't wash away misery.

Petra

Thu 07-19-2007

Darn... so I can't just bathe and make you go away?

Pure Genius!

Wow. that head picture was... Ermmmm... Interesting? I thought it was the same head, only I thought it was done with mirrors or photoshop. Not chopping it in half. Oh wow. While that is interesting I think I'lll stick with Motts' photos for now.. And to make this photo related, I thought it was bones at first glance...

Love the shot.

Most amazing faucets I've ever seen.........

Amazed

Fri 02-29-2008

call the plumber i think the sink is broken

777onster

Wed 07-09-2008

This is one of my favorite pictures on the whole site. It's really creepy yet beautiful in its own way <3

beautiful.

pure art

that could be an instant classic album cover.... like the swimming baby!!

Shanna

Fri 01-30-2009

Gotta say... after reading Motts' original comment, I **almost** googled Witkin. Then, thankfull, I read the user comments.

I did not google Witkin. I WILL not google Witkin. Thank you all for the enlightenment beforehand. Motts continues to be my favorite photographer and I am glad to leave it at that.

Rekrats

Tue 02-24-2009

(That's supposed to be "thankfully," BTW...)

Rekrats

Tue 02-24-2009

Hooray for Joel Peter-Witkin!!! XD

It's beautiful. . . Eventhough it's rust, it reminds me of the Baroque era, and gilded objects. . . Maybe it's an industrial form of gilding. . .

Redinkreign

Thu 02-26-2009

I have a Joel Peter Witkin 'coffee table' book. I loved when people would come over and pick it up. It was great to see their reaction. I need to get a coffee table so I can put it out again.

satiria

Sat 09-18-2010

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