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Motel Fetish (Photobook)

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I've seen a few of Chas Ray Krider in the The Mammoth Book of Illustrated Erotica, this is one of the cases in which the black and white print of the mammoth book really hurt the quality and character of a photo, but i liked it all the same. I ordered the book and was really really excited to unexpectedly fall on such a gem.

The book itself is large, very good prints and quality of the entire production is superb, but non of it would be fun if it weren't for krider's wonderful style and deep understanding and research into his fetish, which is motel rooms - the whole style's very cinematic, a lot of the shots look as if they are freeze frames of motion, and though the pose are very constructed ,they are built to represent a scenario.

The photo reflect that motel feeling of danger, excitement and temporary environment, the models and room have a very vintage feel about them, and the lighting is again, very cinematic.

Another added bonus, for me, was a wonderful preface written by Eric Kroll, which i admire, the connection between the two both in relation to fetish and to photography's very evident and so, it was nice to have one of them comment on the works of the other.

Motel Fetish is an illusion - a suggestive, seductive, fake place. Here, a corner of a Columbus, Ohio photographer's studio is transformed into a technicolor pocket of hypnotic sleaze that has a resonance all of us can identify and none of us can explain. There's a touch of what you like about Betty Page in Kryder's work but there's deliberate stillness in the models that is enigmatic, interesting. You are slumming on the naughty frontier when you visit Motel Fetish; stumbling about a thirty five dollar room, knocking over lamps with a girdle-and-stocking bad girl when you should be looking for a job.

Motel Fetish is a Taschen product and fans of their offerings will know what to expect. Some of these photos were on Kryder's Website, many were not. Since the book was issued the Website has slimmed down a bit and some of the choicest pictures from there didn't make it to the book. Esoteric erotica is subjective stuff but for this reviewer there could have been a better selection of images from the Website as many images in the book are substantially the same thing. I bought Motel Fetish looking for visual variety in a dull world. I found that in spades and I'm hooked and impatient for more.

A very good book. Definitely worth the money. The photographs aren't trashy, but VERY explicit. They're also very well taken as far as lighting, and clarity. Unlike some fetish books I have seen where the photographers photo's look like they've been taken with a disposable camera and publish in a book. This book has top notch photography of very attractive nude women. The book is very thick, and very large. Definitely a must have for your bookshelf.

This book is exactly what I am into. Pinup-fetish style in dirty motel rooms. Perhaps, because I was so excited to get it, I was somewhat let down. It is obvious that it is a man photographer. Most of the photos concentrate on crotch shots involving a lamp of some sort. A little odd, but there are some nice photos. Particularly the cover shot.

Words fail me ladies and gentlemen. Beautiful girls in seedy motel rooms across America, surrounded by a seemingly eternal
three am in the twilight zone erotic moment. Beautiful.