Joel-Peter Witkin, Lust and Madness Harms Way Murder and Mayhem [SIGNED 1994 1ST EDITION]

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Twin Palms, 1994. Hardcover in printed dust jacket. First Edition (stated), First Printing.12.38 x 9.25 inches. Unpaginates with circa 200 pages filled with photographic images throughout. Joel-Peter Witkin has edited a new monograph which reveals "the ability of the photograph to show us our powerlessness in the face of madness, lust, disease and death." Included are nineteenth-century asylum inmate portraits with calligraphic annotations on each patients' diagnosis, turn-of-the-century crime scenes, nineteenth-century medical photographs, and a collection of images from the Kinsey Institute for Sex Research. Joel-Peter Witkin contributed the introduction. SIGNED by Witkin on the fep. BOOK CONDITION: Fine; a solid, tight, clean copy in a Near fine dust jacket showing rubbing to panels.SIGNED