Joel-Peter Witkin. Love, hate or indifferent?

[focused]

I think his work is amazing, though when I first heard of him I thought he was too macabre.
As a, predominantly, still-life photographer I have grown to admire his work and would love
to be in the studio on one of his shots

I just wondered what PH thought

About him: http://archive.salon.com/people/bc/20

His work: www.correnticalde.com/joelpeterwitkin/

More work: www.edelmangallery.com/witkin.htm

Warning though, some images are shocking

[cy88]

Last time I felt such morbid fascination was when I went to see that exhibition of plasticised corpses done by that Austrian autopsy guy! Morbid fascination only though - I can't say I would ever want one of these, especially having read the Mexican Morgue stories!