Great French photographer who’s work homages Terry Richardson.

link: jlsbirdy.canalblog.com

Publisher: Taschen
Paperback: 500 pages
Description:
Limited Edition Boxed hardover
Ellen von Unwerth depicts women the way no man ever dared. Candid, intimate, and always beautiful. Because she was a supermodel (before the term was invented), because she knows female sensuality, because of her playful attitude to desire. One of the world s most original fashion photographers, she pays homage to the world’s most delectable women. Fräulein celebrates female icons in provocative poses: Claudia Schiffer, Penelope Cruz, Natalie Portman, Kate Moss, Vanessa Paradis, Britney Spears, Eva Mendes, Lindsay Lohan, Dita von Teese, Adriana Lima, Carla Bruni, Eva Green and dozens more.
Switching effortlessly between color and immaculate black and white (her forte?) von Unwerth’s photography revels in sexual intrigue, femininity, romance, fetishism and sheer joie de vivre. These ladies don’t care what you think. Whether nude or in lingerie and a dazzling smile, her subjects are never objectified. Some flaunt personal fantasies; others are guarded and secretive, suggesting that we have stumbled into a secret world. Fashion and fantasy were never so enthralling, nor so enchantingly combined.These images were shot over the last 15 years and many are previously unpublished. Hey, we didn’t even pick these pictures, Ellen did!

And yes, it’s an art book, so you don’t have to look so sheepish.

available now for pre-order:
link: Ellen Von Unwerth (Limited Edition Boxed)

Hardcover: 388 pages
Publisher: TASCHEN America

Following up from ‘The Big Book of Breasts’ and The Big Penis Book, comes The Big Book of Legs from Editor Dian Hanson.

Available for pre-order from amazon:
link » The Big Book of Legs


From the publisher:
Lady Legs: Hip To Toe And Haunch To Heel
Running the gamut of gorgeous gams

The female leg is an erotic oddity: non-genital, and nearly identical in structure to the male limb, there is no obvious reason why it should be eroticized. Yet through much of history, across many cultures, the female leg was kept covered and treated as taboo, until it became an object of sexual obsession. In Victorian times, the word ‘leg’ was forbidden in polite society, lest gentlemen be driven wild with lust. Even now, 80 years after women’s legs finally came out of hiding, their allure remains mysterious and powerful.

The third in Dian Hanson’s wildly successful series on erotic body parts explores how the female leg became central to women’s emacipation, from the French Revolution to the sexual revolution. Over 400 photos document the first burlesque shows of the 1800s, the silk-stockinged flappers of the 20s, the nylon-mania of the 40s, the dawn of the stiletto in the 50s, and the golden age of leg magazines in the 60s. Who wore the first high heels, how nylons became a weapon of war, why Betty Grable’s were the “million dollar legs,” where Elmer Batters got his start and just what the deal is with feet, the answers are all here, along with vintage photos by Irving Klaw, Batters, and other great masters of leg art.

Photographs shown:
Unknown by Elmer Batters, circa 1968
Gayle Glenn by Elmer Batters, circa 1964
Anja, circa 1968
Unknown, circa 1959
Bettie Page by Bunny Yeager, 1954

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Hardcover: 312 pages
Limited collector’s ed edition (May 1, 2009)
A decade after his first TASCHEN book, Deus Ex Machina (Klotz), Ralph Gibson is back with an extensive and essential collection of nudes, including his best recent work as well as an interview by Eric Fischl. Strikingly contrasted and meticulously composed, Gibson’s photographs pay tribute to some of the medium s greatest practitioners, such as Man Ray and Edward Weston, while venturing into uncharted waters.

link: Ralph Gibson: Nude

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The Artist as Megalomaniac is a 10 part video series about the work of artist Alva Bernadine. Episode 3 has just been release and features some really interesting footage from behind the scenes of his Bernadine’s shadow based photo series. Make sure you watch right through to the grand finale to see model Mouse perform a spectacular trick with some industrial sized sparklers. Check out the series so far here.

url » bernadinism.com

Alva Bernadine’s book:
» Bernadinism: How to Dominate Men and Subjugate Women

scenes from episode 3

Photographer: Tammy Sanborn
Publisher: GOLIATH

From the publisher:
Elegant, stylish, enticing and uber-sexy are the women in Tammy Sanborn’s Hot Luxury Girls. Only the hottest models share their raw sexual and exquisite beauty in luxurious and sensual settings, dressed in finest lingerie or classy nothingness. This high-end photo collection is truly a new definition of erotic chic!

Buy it now from Amazon
url » Hot Luxury Girls: Best of Sugar Posh Beauties

Buy it now from Goliath Books
url »www.goliath.eu

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Moscow based fine art photographer.

url » www.alina-lebedeva.ru
via » i’m the hunter