A photographer of striking versatility as well as one of the world's finest photographic printmakers, Bob Carlos Clarke has made a wide range of memorable images in his career. Alongside photographs that transport his brilliant technique into a world of ambiguous eroticism, he also makes finely nuanced still lives that impart an uncanny humanism to inanimate objects.
"Best tip in affordable contemporary erotic photography is Irish-born Bob Carlos Clarke. Both Maclean and Juliet Hacking, head of Christie's photography department, tip him as the new Helmut Newton (the German-Australian photographer... - The Observer, Sunday May 7, 2006.
The Art of Arousal: A Celebration of Erotic Art throughout History... Well-known sex therapist Westheimer here presents a provocative, richly eclectic, inspirational collection of erotic art. Chapters proceed methodically from flirtation and seduction to foreplay, the embrace, solitary and group pleasures and conclude with blissful exhaustion--a loose framework for organizing more than 100 color reproductions of works by Georgia O'Keeffe, Titian, Watteau, Durer, Manet, Courbet, Egon Schiele, David Hockney and others.
Joëlle-Circé Laramée... I paint the socially unacceptable, the raw experiences of life,
especially in regards to violence against women. I cannot see myself
using my talent as an artist without giving voice to what I feel
matters.
The New Erotic Photography... When you call it art, you can keep really hot photos right there on the coffee table. No one pulls this trick off like TASCHEN, the art-book publisher that made smut a cultural celebration. This new collection features the sexiest nudes you're likely to see outside the pages of Penthouse, including work by Steve Diet Goedde, Natasha Merritt, Craig Morey, Dave Naz, and many others and was compiled by acclaimed adult editor Dian Hanson and fetish photographer Eric Kroll. The international cast of visionaries captures the allure of women doing everything from eating ice cream or licking their own nipples to lounging languidly for a smoke or simply showing off a sumptuous behind; the book includes quotations from the photos articulating their inspiration.
F Is for Fetish (Erotic Alphabet) ...
"I began to lust for each fetish soon after opening Alison Tyler's recent book F is for Fetish.
A bike mechanic's smudged, strong hands, golden showers from a goddess
in a clawfoot bathtub, and decadently soiled maribou slippers -- each
of these quickly drew me in. Each story in this collection features a
distinct moment where the plot falls away and the story is devoted to
its fetish object, specifying its particular hotness and how it makes
the narrator feel -- one young man tastes his Mistress's toes through
her musky fishnets with adoration and lust; a hungry boot slut inhales
the whiff of acrid boot polish melting in the hot sun as she kneels to
polish a series of military boots. The stories were very hot for that
very intensity, that rareness." -- T.R. Moss-alt.com
Édouard-Henri Avril... Avril illustrated such works as Gustave Flaubert's Salammbô, Gautier's Le Roi Caundale, John Cleland's Fanny Hill, Jean Baptiste Louvet de Couvray's Adventures of the Chevalier de Faublas, Mario Uchard's Mon Oncle Barbassou (scenes in a harem), Jules Michelet's The Madam, Hector France's Musk, Hashish and Blood, the writings of Pietro Aretino, and the anonymous lesbian novel Gamiani. His major work was designs for De Figuris Veneris: A Manual of Classical Erotica by the German scholar Friedrich Karl Forberg.
E Is for Exotic (Erotic Alphabet)... E is for Exotic proves that erotica can come in infinitely more
exciting combinations than the obvious tropical beach cliché.....(it)
spans the earth to titillate us with tales of sexual depravity that are
all equally exotic and sexy as hell.....As E demonstrates, it's not
just sun-drenched beaches or balmy summer locations that really inspire
lustful encounters. You can be anywhere in the world to conjure up
erotic passions worthy of putting pen to paper. Better still, read this
lovely book and you can get hot and heavy in all corners of the earth
from the comfort of your own bedroom. -- Forum UK
D Is for Dress-Up (Erotic Alphabet)... A Is For Amour, B Is For Bondage, C Is For Co-Eds and D Is For Dress-Up
kick off a new series from Alison Tyler and Cleis Press. From Amour to
Zippers, this alphabetical extravaganza of erotic delights features 26
hot volumes of explicit, playful stories.
The couples in these
stories love to put on a costume and try out a new persona for some
playful, amorous fun. Rachel Kramer Bussel shows what happens when a
modern girl becomes Dorothy for the Day, while Bryn Haniver’s
narrator makes short work of an old prom dress in Rags to Riches.
History of German Porn: Gretchen Kraut Collection... Germans are not really famous for their great passions or pleasures.
Abroad, people like to watch them falling under the tables at carnival
or at the October Fest, drunk and merry. Tacitus seems to have known
this side. He tells tales of the ancestors of the Germans, in classical
Rome. He found them a hard and wild tribe that loved to roam the
wilderness, stark naked. Indestructible even then but not really
prepared to enjoy lust and pleasure.
Thomas Rowlandson, Erotic Portfolio, Drawings and Etchings... This collection of drawings illustrates the talent of Thomas Rowlandson as he captures on paper both the popular and aristocratic joyous ribaldry of the time, with a charming and humorous wit. A talented painter and graduate of the London Royal Academy, Rowlandson was also a gambler and a bon vivant. A keen observer of the human comedy and a master caricaturist, he published numerous erotic illustrations, etchings and engravings which have kept all their vigor for our enduring pleasure.
Egon Schiele: 1890-1918: Desire and Decay... "Hindering the artist is a crime," wrote Egon Schiele in 1912. At the time he was in prison for disseminating immoral drawings. Throughout his work the note of defiance, provocation, and rebellion was sounded. Schiele's favorite subjects were female nudes and self-portraits, and he worked at his art with furious commitment, though it was not until shortly before his early death that he began to win real recognition. Today, with Oskar Kokoschka, he is seen as the most important of the Austrian artists who came after Klimt. This study examines the life and work of Egon Schiele through all the major oil paintings and many of his erotic drawings.
A photographer of striking versatility as well as one of the world's finest photographic printmakers, Bob Carlos Clarke has made a wide range of memorable images in his career. Alongside photographs that transport his brilliant technique into a world of ambiguous eroticism, he also makes finely nuanced still lives that impart an uncanny humanism to inanimate objects.
