On the theme of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder - I have revisited one of my favourite films - Jacob's Ladder. The director - Adrian Lyne - took inspiration from the photographs of Joel-Peter Witkin. JPW is an American photographer whom constructs photographs of the realism of the human condition. The truth of the subject is provocative and just as frightening as the notion behind Jacob's Ladder : Jacob Singer's nightmare is that he isn't dreaming.
Joel-Peter Witkin's photography relates to life and death by depicting life in its most extreme conditions - it brings home the impossibility of the everyday - what one person finds extreme another person finds pleasurable and maybe banal - and left wanting more.
Joel-Peter Witkin's photographs can be found at:
http://www.davidknipper.com/famous_person/love.htm
http://www.edelmangallery.com/witkin.htm
http://www.correnticalde.com/joelpeterwitkin/Witkin_01.shtml
Joel-Peter Witkin - Mother and Child [with Retractor Screaming] - 1979
Joel-Peter Witkin - Shoe Fucker and Woman Who Believes She's Becoming a Camera
- 2003
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