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Summary: A good general overview
Review: 48 photographers are represented in "Fetish", a survey of recent trends in determinedly decadent photos of women in vinyl, rubber or rope. Some, like Nobuyoshi Araki, show 2 photos, most get 4 photos and a few photogs get 6 pix, giving a fairly shallow sampling of each photographer. The range of work shown is also fairly narrow, but in this field, perhaps that's a benefit, particularly for newcomers. For example, there's nothing in "Fetish" to compare with Mapplethorpe's photo of a ... nailed and wired to a block of wood -- in fact there are very few photos involving males at all. So while the book deals with material that remains controversial and retains an illicit look, "Fetish" is a fairly safe first stride into the dark side. Reproduction quality is uneven but in the many cases where it is good, it is very good indeed. I REALLY want to hang out with Derek Ridgers...or Sandra Jensen. Really. I do. They must be much more interesting people than I am. And PLEASE could I hire a model like Mike McMillan's redhead with the blue rope. Gasp, what a picture.
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Summary: 48 photographers wide and one inch deep
Review: 48 photographers are represented in "Fetish", a survey of recent trends in determinedly decadent photos of women in vinyl, rubber or rope. Some, like Nobuyoshi Araki, show 2 photos, most get 4 photos and a few photogs get 6 pix, giving a fairly shallow sampling of each photographer. The range of work shown is also fairly narrow, but in this field, perhaps that's a benefit, particularly for newcomers. For example, there's nothing in "Fetish" to compare with Mapplethorpe's photo of a ... nailed and wired to a block of wood -- in fact there are very few photos involving males at all. So while the book deals with material that remains controversial and retains an illicit look, "Fetish" is a fairly safe first stride into the dark side. Reproduction quality is uneven but in the many cases where it is good, it is very good indeed. I REALLY want to hang out with Derek Ridgers...or Sandra Jensen. Really. I do. They must be much more interesting people than I am. And PLEASE could I hire a model like Mike McMillan's redhead with the blue rope. Gasp, what a picture.
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Summary: Generally a pleasant coffee table-if-you-dare photo book
Review: A pleasant but not exciting collection of fetish photographs by various photographers. Because every photographer only gets a page or two or three, there is no continuity to any of the photos besides the very loosely defined term FETISH. There's a little skin, some light bondage, some artsy posing and some photo-doctoring. The predominant garb is leather and latex, the two tried-and-true staples of fetish photography. Worth getting but not all that exciting. A good coffee table or bathroom book for a liberal household.
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Summary: A good general overview
Review: A survey of fetish work. As a result it doesn't hold together like a single photographer's work would, for example, the book jarringly jumps from black and white , to color, and back again, and the subject matter varies from the ordinary to the unusual. If you're looking for the high-style of a Joel Peter Witkin, this isn't your book.
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Summary: Gorgeous Photography and Costuming
Review: Fetishism doesn't personally attract me. However, in my continuing study of the human body for developing my own art work, the cover picture on this book snared me. I thought it was very original and eye catching. I bought the book and I did have many good art creation inspirations from looking at the photos. Curiously, however, most of that inspiration was in costuming, which formerly interested me greatly when I did fiber wearable art. The head gear in particular, some of which reminded me of great birds of prey and primitive masks, was visually stunning. This is pretty "out there" stuff though and I wouldn't recommend it if you are looking for generally erotic photographs and think this book might do the job. I think you better specifically like fetishes, or have a specific other interest like mine, in order to make it worth your investment. This also might be a very worthwhile investment for those artists who are still in fiber wearable art or costuming.
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Summary: Gorgeous Photography and Costuming
Review: Fetishism doesn't personally attract me. However, in my continuing study of the human body for developing my own art work, the cover picture on this book snared me. I thought it was very original and eye catching. I bought the book and I did have many good art creation inspirations from looking at the photos. Curiously, however, most of that inspiration was in costuming, which formerly interested me greatly when I did fiber wearable art. The head gear in particular, some of which reminded me of great birds of prey and primitive masks, was visually stunning. This is pretty "out there" stuff though and I wouldn't recommend it if you are looking for generally erotic photographs and think this book might do the job. I think you better specifically like fetishes, or have a specific other interest like mine, in order to make it worth your investment. This also might be a very worthwhile investment for those artists who are still in fiber wearable art or costuming.
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Summary: Masterpieces of Theater
Review: I have no experience with erotic or fetish photography, so I cannot review this book from a learned perspective. But, as the old saw goes, I know what I like. And I liked this book.The contents were a nice capture of shadow and light, a somber eye cast on what could have been alarming or lurid and making it instead something lovely. Certainly there was plenty here to titillate rather than elevate, but that's no reason to throw out the entire batch.
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Summary: Masterpieces of Theater
Review: I have no experience with erotic or fetish photography, so I cannot review this book from a learned perspective. But, as the old saw goes, I know what I like. And I liked this book. The contents were a nice capture of shadow and light, a somber eye cast on what could have been alarming or lurid and making it instead something lovely. Certainly there was plenty here to titillate rather than elevate, but that's no reason to throw out the entire batch.
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Summary: Fetish... yes
Review: Mmmmhhhh....
if you like fetish, is ok. Some of them are really erotiq, but only a few of them are .... Àstupid?
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Mmmhhh....
Si a uno le gusta el fetichismo, est‡ bien. Alqunas de ellas son realmente erotiqas, pero unas cuantas si son.... Àestœpidas?
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Summary: An excellent sampling of the best fetish photographers
Review: This book is an excellent introduction and sampling of the genre of fetish photography. Some of the top names in the field have their work included, such as Steve Diet Goedde, (the late) Gunther Blum, Jo Hammar, Nik Marchant, Doris Kloster, and Eric Kroll.
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