The Nature of Desire OOP "Depictions of the West as

"Depictions of the West as a vast garden of romantic innocence and male possibility abound

96 four-color plates

95 sheet-fed gravure plates

For this collection Joel-Peter Witkin has personally selected his finest images

Jean Harlow

The Nature of Desire OOP "Depictions of the West as"Photographers are always looking at things, but they never question the nature of the thing itself. A photograph of a corpse tells me nothing of the metaphysical implications of death, which are ultimately more significant than its appearance. A photograph of a person whom we find attractive does not reveal the complex nature of the desire that it provokes in us. we are constantly responding without examining the subtle mechanisms of our response.