About the Author

Joel-Peter Witkin is an American photographer who has received many awards including several from the National Endowment for the Arts agency, a Ford Foundation Grant and the International Center of Photography Fourth Annual Award. He was decorated with a Chevalier Des Arts et des Lettres in France. His work is held in major collections including Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; The J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, CA; Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain and George Eastman House, Rochester. Jerome Witkin is an American painter who has been recognised with several awards including a Pulitzer Traveling Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship. His work is included in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Uffizi, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Hirshhorn Museum. Trisha Ziff is a British curator, writer and filmmaker. Other books she has edited are: Still War, Photographs From the North of Ireland (1989); Between Worlds, Contemporary Mexican Photography (1990); Distant Relations: A Dialogue among Chicano, Irish and Mexican Artists (1996);Quietscapes (2004); Che Guevara, Revolutionary and Icon (2006); and 101 Tragedies of Enrique Metinides (2012).