Joel Peter Witkin
Twelve Photographs (Book title)

Twelve Photographs (Book title)
Twelve Photographs (Book title)
Twelve Photographs (Book title)
AuthorAmerican, 1927–2014
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Twelve Photographs (Book title)
  • .1) Head of a Dead Man (Mexico City, 1990)
  • .2) Satiro (Mexico City, 1992)
  • .3) Three Kinds of Woman (Mexico City, 1992)
  • .4) Un Santo Oscuro (New Mexico, 1987)
  • .5) Still Life (Mexico City, 1992)
  • .6) Las Meninas (New Mexico, 1997)
  • .7) Studio of the Painter (Paris, 1990)
  • .8) Feast of Fools (Mexico City, 1990)
  • .9) Laokoön (New Mexico, 1992)
  • .10) Nègre's Fetishist (Paris, 1990)
  • .11) Vanity (New Mexico, 1990)
  • .12) Man with Dog (Mexico City, 1990)
Date1992
MediumPaper, textile with gravures
Dimensions.1)Image: 10 1/4 × 12 5/8 in. (26 × 32.1 cm)
.2)Image: 11 3/8 × 10 1/4 in. (28.9 × 26 cm)
.3)Image: 9 1/4 × 12 3/4 in. (23.5 × 32.4 cm)
.4)Image: 10 1/16 × 10 1/8 in. (25.6 × 25.7 cm)
.5)Image: 10 5/16 × 11 1/16 in. (26.2 × 28.1 cm)
.6)Image: 10 3/16 × 10 1/4 in. (25.9 × 26 cm)
.7)Image: 9 3/8 × 12 3/4 in. (23.8 × 32.4 cm)
.8)Image: 10 × 12 3/4 in. (25.4 × 32.4 cm)
.9)Image: 10 3/8 × 10 1/4 in. (26.4 × 26 cm)
.10)Image: 9 7/8 × 12 1/2 in. (25.1 × 31.8 cm)
.11)Image: 10 1/8 × 11 1/8 in. (25.7 × 28.3 cm)
.12)Image: 12 7/8 × 10 1/2 in. (32.7 × 26.7 cm)
Overall Book: 23 3/4 × 18 in. (60.3 × 45.7 cm)
Overall Box: 25 × 19 in. (63.5 × 48.3 cm)
Credit LineGift of an anonymous donor
Object number2002.474
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Department
Photography
Special Collections
ProvenancePrivate collection; given to MFAH, 2002.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Signed in pencil on the last printed page: "Witkin"
Printed paper label on the box: "JOEL-PETER WITKIN"

Printed on the cover of the book: "WITKIN"

Printed on the title page: "JOEL-PETER WITKIN / Twelve Photographs / WITH A POEM BY / GALWAY KINNELL / KEVIN BEGOS / NEW YORK MCMXCIII"

Printed on verso title page: "Images © 1993 by Joel-Peter Witkin / "Under the Maud Moon" from THE BOOK OF NIGHTMARES / by Galway Kinnell. Copyright © 1971 by Galway Kinnell / Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Co. / All rights reserved. / Special contents of this edition © 1993 / by Kevin Begos Publishing, Inc."

Printed at the end of the book: "Twelve Photographs / was produced during 1992-1993 / in an edition of 175 numbered copies, with and additional 32 Artist Proof / and Hors Commerce books which / are not for sale. / The gravure plates / were made by Jon Goodman, and printed on Lana Paper / and Robert Townsend. / The types Perpetua, / with Perpetua Titling, / set by Golgonooza Letter Foundry and printed by Darell Hyder. / The book was designed / by Kevin Begos Jr. and Joel-Peter Witkin. / This is copy 104"

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