Sex / Erotic art books

[FreakAnimalFinland]

VISIONS OF OPHELIA by Jack Gilbert
Editions Reuss

Jack Gilbert's atmospheric, sensitive, black-and-white photos offer us intimate insights into the emotional worlds of his young models. He focuses his lens on the soft curves, budding breasts and pouting lips of youthful beauties who bewitch us with their innocent gazes. Here is a photobook full of poetry and voluptuous abandon. "Visions of Ophelia is just my personal statement, as an artist, celebrating the unique and splendid beauty inherent in all young women."

Young, meaning women at their early 20's. Gilbert's foreword (available in english, german & french) explains his interest this Shakespeare's archetype of fragile and tragic young woman. His work in mental institute of some sort, with suicidal, self loathing young women, who he - nor staff in general could not help. Book continues his interest, and each model takes part of multiple pages worth of photos. Stylish nude works, not too much focus on genitalia. Slightly sepia tinted printing ink makes the B/W images look very neat and the lenz with very narrow focus creates dreamy blur. Certainly among the best of Edition Reuss books.

[tiny_tove]

Dahmane

Porn art 1 & (especially 2) featuring his wife Chloe des Lysses.

[Levas]

Taschen has released these Nobuyoshi Araki art books. Looking nice, but the price is well...

Link

[FreakAnimalFinland]

I have not found those Dahmane books yet. Have been drooling over the scans and have one door pasted with xeroxes from the book I was given by Greh years ago.
Araki I have few of his books, but for example Taschen big one... Don't fully understand what's the big deal with him. Don't think vast majority of works are good enough to own...

[bitewerksMTB]

$4,000- I thought I was seeing things.

[FreakAnimalFinland]

INTIMATE OBSESSIONS
by China Hamilton
Another Edition Reuss book, and I think China Hamilton is relatively well known. Even Taschen included his works in some book of contemporary erotic photos. It appears as this 2007 book is still his latest photograhy book. Text in English, French and German. Hardback printed to very high standards in tinted monochrome images. His work includes s/m, bondage etc, but this particular book includes most of all just erotic nudes. Lots of shadows, lots of tasty mystery in finest tradition of nude art photography. No dull color snapshots, no full lights. Focus on essential elements. If it's female body, with fully exposed shaven genitalia, that's the element that is in focus, light, and clear sight - while background may be blurry or so dark it's just pure black. Dreamy and soft images would be enough. I don't think the foreword does book full justice. Its always kind of turn off, when artists feels need to underline the nature of fantasy and make explanation why people shouldn't be worried of such an animalistic elements of submission and domination etc.

See few preview images in his free info site:

http://www.chinahamilton.com

[Human Larvae]

Bodyvision
Lithuanian Nudes


grabbed a copy of this at a porn shop yesterday. Nice pics, some fatties, and some of the girls seem very young. Goes for 10,- on Amazon

[cr]

Can anybody recommend some good books about Japanese bondage/Shibari/Kinbaku, which are also quite easily available? Maybe not the "famous" ones like Araki...
Thanks!

[cr]

Can't myself, but if you want an incredible resource for seeking out more of this material in printed form then give this blog a visit: https://kokoro-kinbaku.com/

Many thanks, this looks like a good and interesting site to investigate and research further into topic.

[AdamLehrerImageMaker]

Check out this book by Seiu Ito: https://www.amazon.com/Semee-No-Onna-Seiu-Ito/dp/4106024233

He was a painter and a photographer and is credited as the father of shibari and it's pretty clear to see Araki does exactly what he did but with some pop and fashion friendly flourishes that has made him very rich. We had an Araki retrospective at the museum where I work as my day job (researcher) and I got right sick of looking at his work, despite all the very beautiful crazy sexy Japanese women (my personal preference is Asian women.)

When it comes to art or erotic art, I tend towards the truly macabre and bizarre (if I want to get off I'll just watch porn): Hans Bellmer, Pierre Molinier, etc...

For contemporary stuff, highly recommend Paul Kooiker's work (balances art imagery with confrontational sexual imagery) as well as AL Steiner's lesbian images. Can someone tell me how I'm supposed to embed images into here?

Can anybody recommend some good books about Japanese bondage/Shibari/Kinbaku, which are also quite easily available? Maybe not the "famous" ones like Araki...
Thanks!

[AdamLehrerImageMaker]

For newer books, I would recommend the http://thekingsboropress.com/shop released 'The Wainwright Naked Hippie Tarot' book.

Jerry Wainwright was a hippe in San Francisco in the 1970s and into Tarot and shit, and wanted to make his own Tarot cards by photographing his friends being naked and erotic. The story interests me less then the work. Hard to believe this guy never got any attention, because he's making these images around the same time as Mapplethorpe, Newton, DeSana, and all those other naughty dudes.

[online prowler]

Check out this book by Seiu Ito: https://www.amazon.com/Semee-No-Onna-Seiu-Ito/dp/4106024233

Can anybody recommend some good books about Japanese bondage/Shibari/Kinbaku, which are also quite easily available? Maybe not the "famous" ones like Araki...
Thanks!

Great book. I have this and a few others by Seiu. I also have a near mint first edition of it on sale via Where frost reign and another commermoration magazines dedicated solemnly to Seiu.

http://wherefrostreignhangar.tumblr.com/post/179635114143/distro-new-in-stock-hiroshi-kawaguchi

http://wherefrostreignhangar.tumblr.com/post/176672397273/distro-new-in-stock-fun-graph-ukiyo-e-and-itoh

CR! Hit me up via PM, I have several photo books, magazines and books for sale on the subject in my distro.