Eric Kroll's Fetish Girls (Amuses Gueules) (Paperback)

by Benedikt Taschen (Author)

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Review
"Fetish Girls came out in 1994 and I immediately moved with my family from New York City to San Francisco. I wanted a different light to shoot by. I went from a studio to shooting in a classic Victorian mansion. I'm still a fetishist. I live with my muse, Gwen, and my children. I made about a dozen more videos and two books of photo sexual narratives involving Gwen entitled "The Transformations of Gwen" Volumes 1 and 2 (NBM Publishing). I am more interested in capturing intimate sexual 'play' than before. The players have to be in heels, hose must be within frame, rubber nearby, with a hint of leather. It is the game of pleasure that I seek on film. Don't come naked to me. Come with attitude and kneel or stand above me. My audience is particular, born as it were, from Fetish Girls." --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Description
The American King of Fetishism

As a teenager, New York photographer Eric Kroll was excited by women in bondage or high heels à la Betty Page - and he still is. His pictures of models in leather and rubber, bound and gagged, have made his name one of the classics in the bondage world.

Man Ray, Weegee and Eric Stanton were his avowed idols. The American King of Fetishism opens the door on a cabinet of bizarre lust and fantasy, spiced with an unfailing and unmistakable irony. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 64 pages
• Publisher: Taschen (October 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 3822881708
• ISBN-13: 978-3822881705
• Product Dimensions: 4 x 3.2 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,621,611 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Eric Kroll's Fetish Girls, June 30, 1998

By A Customer

I find the photography in this amazing book to be most beautiful, erotic, creative and deliciously deviant. This sensual coffee table book was given to me as a gift from my boyfriend. As soon as I opened the first few pages, I realized why he chose "Fetish Girls". A part of me was in every photograph. I have since given this book to many, many friends--I know they, much like myself, will treasure these captured moments for a long, long time.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Eric Kroll: The World of Fetishism, November 17, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: Eric Kroll's Fetish Girls (Photobook) (Paperback)

Kroll is perhaps the best fetish photographer laboring the fields of fantasy. "...Girls" is an exquisite work and worthy of gracing the most daring of coffee tables. The highly charged erotic images in this book will haunt you for weeks; visions of equally exotic and weird women in provocative states of dress and undress. Kroll demonstrates that fetishism is--for many men and women--both a way of seeing the world and a way of life. Highly recommended for the collector

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of fetish photography's greatest influences!, March 24, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Eric Kroll's Fetish Girls (Photobook) (Paperback)

Fetish Girls is Eric Kroll's blazing, 200-page tribute to all the photographers, models, and fetishists that have inspired him through his life: Nam Paik, Weegee, Man Ray, Elmer Batters, Betty Page, Bunny Yeager, Eric Stanton, John Willie, Irving and Paula Klaw, Bill Ward, and Marcel Duchamp, just to name a few.

A glorious tribute to his predecessors it may be, it is nonetheless a delicious exposé of the incredibly creative work that he himself has created over the years. Beautiful, succulent beauties are flaunted throughout, adorned in an endless variety of kinky clothing and erotic toys. And they are bound, they are knotted-up, they are bent over, spread-eagled, spanked, shaved, and suckled. They pose powerfully as dominators; innocuously as sexual furniture; and provocatively as they shove their crotches in our face.

Through it all, Eric Kroll's talent as a photographer and portraitist stands paramount. And we are left with what might be his finest publication to date and a book that is unquestionably a MUST HAVE for any serious collector.