‘Harms Way’ Book by Joel-Peter Witkin
HARMS WAY | LUST & MADNESS MURDER & MAYHEM by Stanley B. Burns and Joel-Peter Witkin
Published by Twin Palms, 1994. Edition of 5000.
Hardcover, 182pg
Measures 9.5 x 12.25″
Condition: VG+
Edited and Introduction by Joel-Peter Witkin. Essays by Stanley B. Burns, MD, Aaron H. Esman, MD, and Eugenia Parry Janis.
Asking USD$125.
Harms Way: Lust & Madness; Murder & Mayhem. A Book of Photographs Edited by Joel-Peter Witkin
Santa Fe, NM: Twin Palms Publishers, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. Large quarto. Unpaginated (approx. 150pp.). Black dust jacket lettered in white and decorated with raised spidery lines. Blind stamped black cloth. Illustrated throughout with vintage (rather gruesome) crime scene photos, medical conditions, eroticism and erotic deviance, and a fascination with hermaphrodites. Edition limited to 5000 copies. A fine, as new copy.
“Inevitable death and our agony to attain Utopia have made existence a form of pathology. We are left with the secret need for redemption which few of us will understand or witness. This need still lives in acts of love, courage and art. In the images included in this book it is found in the conjoined destinies of artist and subject, phantoms on either side of that curtain we call photography. Implicit in these photographs is the brutal extreme of their purpose and an intimation however distant to their makers that something was manifested beyond the event itself.” Joel-Peter Witkin. Fine in jacket.