Fetish Girls (Ill)

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Summary: One of fetish photography's greatest influences!
Review: 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.

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Summary: Gorgeous!
Review: Gorgeous, HOT, sexy, disturbing, sexy, HOT, wonderful, enligtening, educational. Just great. Totally sexy, hot, and all that stuff. WILD fetish fun! Yay!!!

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Summary: this book change my life
Review: i got it by a complete eccident, a girl left it in the locker after quiting school and i got to have that locker after she left. who knows that somone in the world shared the same fantasies i had and could manifest them into reality in such a versetile humerous and interesting way?! my knowladge of erotic photgraphy to that point was mostly my dad's playboys collection, but this was nothing of the sort.

eric kroll's a profational photographer and though he choose to deal with the issues of sex, fetish and control, the mages themselfs are done proffetionaly with much care to detales scenery and so on, which is very importent to me when creating an erotic scene. he's very versatile and i can't say even now after years of going through those photos what he's spasifcly into, it seems that he like just about anything and doesn't focuse on either one type of fantasy \ body part or certion type of model, however somthing about the lighting, styling and pose can still be recognised as his own personal style.

thechen's a quality art books publisher, so printing, design and binding are very good.

i've had this book for over 7 years and it's still interesting and stimulation to look at.

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Summary: Eric Kroll: The World of Fetishism
Review: 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

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Summary: Eric Kroll does it again, and again and again.
Review: One of the few well known American fetish photographers has put out a book of splendor. The imagery is wonderful and the women are masterfully depicted in the fetishs and their beauty. Certainly a pleasure to veiw and to own.

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Summary: One of fetish photography's greatest influences!
Review: Sorry. I did not find this book stimulating. I did not find it clever. I did not find it sexy. I was very disappointed.

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Summary: To Each His Own
Review: Webster, ever polite, defines fetishism as a fixation of sexual interest on a part of the body, on an article of clothing, or some other device. The key word is fixation, obviously, not the object itself. Given the American male focus on breast size, one could argue that a very large percent of the population are unofficial fetishists. In truth, we all are. Few of us do not have favorite parts and fantasies that enhance and focus our sexual experience. And few fetishists are totally focussed on a particular fantasy to the exclusion of other forms of fulfillment.

Eric Kroll is a photographer whose body of work documents a large segment of the world of erotic fixation. His women come in a variety of shapes and sizes. They dress in leather, vinyl, lace and almost anything else you might care to imagine. They use paraphernalia such as whips, ropes, clips, clamps, and things I cannot mention here. Some are submissive, some are dominant and almost every variation in between is also represented.

Many of Kroll's images are beautifully posed and thought out, combining sexual lushness with a fine aesthetic sense. Other photographs are almost purely documentary. The original edition "Fetish Girls," with 200 pages of images is a vast summary of Kroll's work at the time (1994) and reveals much of his interests, his skills and a curious sense of humor. The miniature edition offers less, but the editing choices are good. At my age, though I find the smaller images require a bit of squinting. Printing is better in the larger edition as well. Unfortunately it is currently out of print, but it is still readily available from resellers and used book dealers.

Both the photographer and the fetishist will find "Fetish Girls" of interest. As a photographer, Kroll has had a great deal of influence in the field of fetish photography in the thirty years he has worked. It is hard to find a photographer in this genre that hasn't been influence by Kroll, and few have his breadth or technical skills. As a fetishist, Kroll shows himself has having a wide range of interest and a sympathetic approach to many of the varieties of sexual experience. He is by no means an extremist, though, and avoids the violence and rough sex of some of his competitors. Perfectly normal people will also find much of interest in this landmark volume of erotic imagery.