untitled-projects:doubles: completely weird photo by joel peter witkin. i know very little about t
untitled-projects: doubles: completely weird photo by joel peter witkin. i know very little about this photo, but it does appear to be of two decapitated identical twin heads posed to look like they’re kissing. doesn’t look like it has been faked in any way. ok so now i’ve found some info on this photo. title is the kiss, new mexico, 1987. it is of a single post-mortem head split down the middle and then the two halves posed to look like separate heads. wow. funny enough, witkin has a twin brother himself. a pivotal scene in confessions of a justified sinner involves the close inspection of a corpse, which appears miraculously to have been perfectly preserved after 100 years in the ground. stewart I knew Joel Peter Witkin when we both lived in Albuquerque. I was a lawyer and he was my client. One anecdote he told me was that he used to visit underground clubs in NYC looking for photo material. He was sitting on a barstool when someone walked up and killed the customer on the next bar stool. His mind is open and creative. -- source link