# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joel-peter-witkin
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:11:12.796Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joel-peter-witkin"
name: "Joel-Peter Witkin"
slug: "joel-peter-witkin"
description: "Joel-Peter Witkin is an American photographer who lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. His work often deals with themes such as death, corpses, often featuring ornately decorated photographic models, including people with dwarfism, transgender and intersex persons, as well as people living with a range of physical features. Witkin is often praised for presenting these figures in poses which celebrate and honor their physiques in an elevated, artistic manner. Witkin's complex tableaux vivants often recall religious episodes or classical paintings."
tagline: "American photographer (born 1939)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Joel_Peter_Witikin_(12).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1939-09-13"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           53.2
  momentum:             1.98098941456038
  historical:           15.53298933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/joelpeterwitkinstudio/"
    handle:    "joelpeterwitkinstudio"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump