Body Farms:workshop 7/8/2012

Controversy leads to more controversy. Being reviewed as controversial causes controversy and may spark people/magazines to approach you with controversial subject matter to shoot!

Being controversial with your photography can lead to more controversy! 

Joel-Peter Witkin 

is an American photographer who lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. His work often deals with such themes as death, corpses (and sometimes dismembered portions thereof), and various outsiders such as dwarfs, transsexuals, hermaphrodites, and physically deformed people. Witkin's complex tableaux often recall religious episodes or famous classical paintings.

used dead people and parts in Mexico to compose and model in his photos! 

http://acidskull.com/body-fail-the-morbid-photography-of-joel-pete

http://www.edelmangallery.com/witkin.htm
http://www.picsearch.com/index.cgi?start=1&width=1658&q=Joel-Peter%20Witkin
http://www.salon.com/2000/05/09/witkin/singleton/

Sally Mann-

is an American photographer, best known for her large black-and-white photographs—at first of her young children, then later of landscapes suggesting decay and death.