He first starts by creating an elegant display of the woman with some striking disfiguration. He captures the attention of the audience that would be pushed to analyze the photograph, and not just brush through it. A scene is recognizable, which is elaborated further by scratching the negative and toning the print. This gives the image an arty, historical appearance. He must have imitated this from the dominant and famous paintings, which becomes the basis of his photography. The Venus goddess is reworking of the Velazquez “Las Meninas” characteristics. At the center of the photograph, the Venus goddess is represented as a legless girl suspended on a cage like round skirt. Witkin’s type of Botticelli’s “Birth of Venus,” is substituted by preoperative transsexual (Herve
He first starts by creating an elegant display of the woman with some striking disfiguration. He captures the attention of the audience that would be pushed to analyze the photograph, and not just brush through it. A scene is recognizable, which is elaborated further by scratching the negative and toning the print. This gives the image an arty, historical appearance. He must have imitated this from the dominant and famous paintings, which becomes the basis of his photography. The Venus goddess is reworking of the Velazquez “Las Meninas” characteristics. At the center of the photograph, the Venus goddess is represented as a legless girl suspended on a cage like round skirt. Witkin’s type of Botticelli’s “Birth of Venus,” is substituted by preoperative transsexual (Herve