![]() ![]() If you own any of these images and want it to be removed or credits corrected, please contact us. Please, if you reblog or share any content do NOT REMOVE credits and sources. We do not own these images (unless indicated otherwise), we share images that somehow haunt us. 'Whistler's Mother' hasn't been seen in SoCal for 82 years.Search Search for: Follow un regard oblique on.The abrupt end of Danny Wylde's porn career. ![]() Taschen's "Bizarre Life" runs to May 24 at The Taschen Gallery at 8070 Beverly Blvd, LA CA 90048. More importantly, because women were shown participating in their fantasies, it showed young men that "the women liked it and wanted it," Hanson says. Image courtesy of TASCHEN)įoot fetishists, submissives, and transvestites were shown that "they're not alone" by Batters and Stanton's work. The female figure was inspired by '60s screen goddess Ursula Andress. (Caption: Eric Stanton's cover art for "A Lesson In Eros," 1964. ![]() She calls Batters' models brave and Stanton's sexual imagination "progressive." It's a matter of what special interest group decides 'this is pornographic' or not."Īdult film actress and director April Flores is grateful for their work. "If someone makes an issue, then that's pornography, or that's awful, and that's something we can't do, but you don't know where it is these days. "The borderline keeps changing," he says. The movie made moot the simulated or suggested sex of Batters' erotica and Stanton's sexploitation, and led to a decline in their careers.Ĭartoonist Jack Enyart isn't sure whether Batters and Stanton's work qualifies as pornography. The market for fetish art was deflated by the first explicit porn film to get wide distribution in the U.S.: 1970's "Mona the Virgin Nymph," according to Perez. The full-face mask was a fetish inspiration." Richard Perez, Stanton's biographer, says Spiderman creator Steve Ditko shared a studio with Stanton in the 1950s, and credited Stanton with Spidey's full-face mask. One of Stanton's creations made it onto drug store racks, though. The bookstores that carried these novels were protected by organized crime, according to Hanson. Four cover paintings a month paid Stanton's rent at a flat in Manhattan in the mid-60s. After making a name for himself as a fantasy-artist-for-hire in pulp magazine ads, he was commissioned by booksellers Stanley Malkin and Eddie Mishkin to illustrate sexploitation novels. Stanton's illustrations were sold under the counter in Times Square. Batters' models were not merely Playboy bunnies trying on shoes he often photographed them performing lesbian sex acts. ![]() "The Sneaker World of Elmer Batters," "Leg Language," "Thigh High" and "Skirts that Flirt" were magazines sold through mail order in the 50s and 60s. Photo: Chris Greenspon)īatters self-published his photos, by necessity. (Caption: In the mid-60s, Eric Stanton illustrated hundreds of sexploitation book covers. Batters apparently realized he had a foot fetish on board a submarine, discovering he was the only sailor who liked feet more than the other parts of a woman's body, Hanson says. Illustrator Eric Stanton's thing was "big, strong women who would wrestle him down to the ground," Hanson says.īoth men were World War II veterans. Photographer Elmer Batters was obsessed with women's feet. "Something that symbolizes sex that becomes the center of your sex life." "A fetish is a substitute for 'natural,' procreative sex," says Taschen Publishing's Sexy Book Editor, Dian Hanson. (Caption: A billboard advertises Taschen's latest show at the corner of Beverly and Crescent Heights boulevards. The image is the perfect emblem for Taschen Gallery's new fetish art show, "Bizarre Life - The Art of Elmer Batters and Eric Stanton" (link NSFW). Warning: This content contains adult themes and may be considered NSFW (not safe for work).Īt the intersection of Beverly and Crescent Heights in Los Angeles, there's a billboard of a topless woman adjusting her stockings, her toes curled over her car's dashboard. ![]()
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