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Below are four new photographs from Joel-Peter Witkin.  Let us know what you think.

Madame L, Bogota, 2009 Joel-Peter Witkin

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Madame Louismille sobbed in the corridors of the hospital. The hours went by slowly, anguish was at its most acute. It was then that an intern dressed in scarlet came to lay on the knees of the lady a box filled with rose petals, containing her beloved son’s penis.

Retrato de una Mosca, Bogota, 2009 Joel-Peter Witkin

Empire, 2009 Joel-Peter Witkin

Priest, 2009 Joel-Peter Witkin

Since we don’t have a lot of sappy images in our inventory, here is how our artists fill the gallery with love on Valentine’s Day.

Kelli Connell’s Convertible Kiss questions sexuality and gender roles that shape the identity of the self in intimate relationships.

Convertible Kiss, 2002 Kelli Connell

Gregory Scott unsuccessfully woos his reclining nude with flowers and gifts in his multi-media piece, Attemptuous. Click the image below to view the video.

Attemptuous, 2008 Gregory Scott

Hiroshi Watanabe relates this image of Lucy and Ricky to his childhood growing up in Japan watching American TV. These TV shows represented paradise and happiness and later lead him to move to the United States.

Battery Park, New York, 1999 Hiroshi Watanabe

Michael Kenna, “Love in black and white” is a book of photographs and poems by photographer Michael Kenna and author Bianca Rossini published by Nazraeli Press in 2009.

Summer Garden Statuary, St. Petersburg, Norway, 2008 Michael Kenna

Dan Estabrook tackles the emotions he has experienced while falling in love in Nine Symptoms.

Shortness of Breath, 2004 Dan Estabrook

And last but not least, The Kiss from Joel-Peter Witkin (this piece is SOLD OUT).

Le Baiser, N.M., 1983 Joel-Peter Witkin