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Joel-Peter Witkin b.1939

Venus and Cupid: The Caucasian View of History, Los Angeles

1987
gelatin silver print image: 15 h × 15 w in (38 × 38 cm) sheet: 19¾ h × 15⅞ w in (50 × 40 cm)
estimate: $1,500–2,000
result: $1,834
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Signed, titled, dated and numbered to verso ‘Joel-Peter Witkin © Venus And Cupid: The Caucasian View Of History Los Angeles 6/15 1987’. This work is number 6 from the edition of 15.

This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

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I wanted my photographs to be as powerful as the last thing a person sees or remembers before death. If there is pain in my photographs, it relates to the pain in my own existence. To me extreme things are like miracles. There is nothing as boring as a person who is just okay.

Joel-Peter Witkin

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