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Man with Dog, Mexico — Joël-Peter Witkin, 1990 Many of the show’s 18 gelatin silver prints picture living humans whose polymorphous bodies have destined them for life on the margins. “Man with Dog,” is a radiant young person whose perfectly formed female breasts preside over an otherwise perfect male body; his made-up face and braided hairdo would mark him as the most elegant of society señoras. The manager of a Mexico City gay bar, the man gazes unapologetically at Witkin’s camera, serenely conscious of his own beauty. Like all of Witkin’s pictures, “Man with Dog” is carefully composed. An elaborate shiny dark cloth frames the nude figure, and the model himself is adorned with photographs and lace. (The work is partly an homage to Diane Arbus’s 1968 “Naked Man Being a Woman,” a similar figure framed by drapes.) — Turning a Prophet, Margaret Regan, Tucson Weekly 2001

Man with Dog, Mexico — Joël-Peter Witkin, 1990

Many of the show’s 18 gelatin silver prints picture living humans whose polymorphous bodies have destined them for life on the margins. “Man with Dog,” is a radiant young person whose perfectly formed female breasts preside over an otherwise perfect male body; his made-up face and braided hairdo would mark him as the most elegant of society señoras. The manager of a Mexico City gay bar, the man gazes unapologetically at Witkin’s camera, serenely conscious of his own beauty.

Like all of Witkin’s pictures, “Man with Dog” is carefully composed. An elaborate shiny dark cloth frames the nude figure, and the model himself is adorned with photographs and lace. (The work is partly an homage to Diane Arbus’s 1968 “Naked Man Being a Woman,” a similar figure framed by drapes.)

— Turning a Prophet, Margaret Regan, Tucson Weekly 2001

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