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Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi
Women Once a Bird
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi

Women Once a Bird

Artist Joel Peter Witkin (American, born 1939)
Date1990
MediumSilver platinum photograph
DimensionsSheet size: 16 x 13 1/8 in. (40.6 x 33.3 cm)
Image: 12 1/2 x 10 1/4 in. (31.8 x 26 cm)
ClassificationsPhotographs
Credit LineGift of Maggie Taylor and Jerry Uelsmann
Object number1995.2.12
Collections
Descriptionfrom: The Year of Tibet Portfolio I; view of back of sitting female nude; wearing a tight and deforming corset on her waist; scarifications at her shoulder blades and top of her skull; shaved head