Erotic Art & Nude Photography

The following erotic art and nude photography books are for the visual beasts among us—for those who have a fine appreciation for the body in all its glorious forms-naked, or outrageously draped in fetish costumes.

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Hot Cheeks Two by Martin Sigrist (Editor)
Edition Skylight, October 2006; ISBN-10: 3037665769

Some 30 famous and well-known masters of erotic photography have contributed their uniquely personal interpretations of the subject in fascinating colour and black and white photos. The volume features stylish studio shots and outdoor pictures, and range from romantic soft focus to bordering on fetishism. Most of the pictures have never been published before.

This striking collection of pictures comes in a popular compact size and contains hundreds of shots, all featuring on the female backside, ranging from closeups to artsy to shockingly erotic. If love the loveable female bottom, you will thoroughly enjoy Hot Cheeks 2.
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Pussy Portraits by Frannie Adams
Editions Reuss, May 2009; ISBN-10: 3934020690

Does the shape of a woman's vagina reflect her character and appearance? It's a daring hypothesis, but the portraits of vaginas in this unbelievable photobook seem to prove that it's really true. These direct juxtapositions of portraits of each woman's face and vagina are veritable revelations!

In full-page illustrations, these 'double portraits' reveal the astonishing beauty and consummate form of the female sex, which has every right in the world to be called by the affectionate nickname 'pussy'. No two are alike, and each one is presented here in this photobook with a proud and self-confident smile on the face of its proud possessor. Text in English, German and French.
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Tuscany Nudes by Petter Hegre
Edition Skylight (October 1, 2009); ISBN-10: 3037666005

Shot over a period of five years, in Tuscany Nudes Hegre shows more than 100 photographs that pay homage to the Renaissance, the flowing contours of his exquisitely proportioned female fi gures against a backdrop of elegant palaces. Hegre's nudes are completely natural, no artifice or accessories, the combination a blend of the classic and contemporary the realization of Hegre's youthful ambitions.

Hegre has worked alone, without assistants, using primarily natural light and the rich ingredients of Tuscany; wine, olive oil, grape. A good proportion of the photographs in Tuscany Nudes was created at Villa Mangiacane, the 16th century stately home built for the Machiavelli family. The South African owner Glynn Cohen has restored the house and gardens to their original splendor, the ancient statuary and mesmerising pools creating a feeling that in Tuscany, time is eternal, as are Petter Hegre's photographs in this memorable collection.
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Strange Days: Aliens, Adventurers, Devils, and Dames by Arnie Fenner & Cathy Fenner (Editors)
Underwood Books (October 1, 2009); ISBN-10: 1599290391

For a quarter of a century, pulp magazines were the most popular entertainment medium in America. Read by everyone from schoolchildren to businessmen, their contents ranged from hard-boiled detective yarns to sci-fi to syrupy love stories. Their sensational and often lurid cover illustrations were considered low-grade trash by the literary and artistic standards of their day, but time has a funny way of changing things. Now deemed Americana Pop Art, the original illustrations fetch thousands of dollars at auctions.

Strange Days presents 32 full-color, framable examples of this gaudy but appealing genre. Included are works by some of its most renowned artists, including Virgil Finlay, Hannes Bok, Edd Cartier, Margaret Brundage, Jerome Rozen, Enoch Bolles, and Walter Baumhoffer. Presented in an oversized 11” x 15” format and printed on heavy stock, Strange Days is a must-have collection for any pulp or period art fan.
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Hotel LaChapelle by David LaChapelle
Skylight Edition (October 31, 2006); ISBN-10: 3037665777

A wild new selection of images for the bad boy of comtemporary photography. Guests include Madonna, Leonardo DiCaprio, Ewan McGregor, Pamela Anderson, Drew Barrymore, Marilyn Manson, Mike Myers, LilKim, Uma Thurman, Cher, Naomi Capbell, Cameron Diaz, and more.

"Mr. LaChapelle is certain to influence the work of a new generation of photographers in the same way that Mr. Avedon pioneered so much of what is familiar today. Amy Spindler, The New York Times
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The Big Book of Legs by Dian Hanson
TASCHEN America Llc (April 1, 2009); ISBN-10: 3836501880

The female leg is a sexual oddity. It’s non-genital, nearly identical in structure to the corresponding male body part, and there is no obvious reason why it should be eroticized. Yet, through much of history, across many cultures, the female leg was hidden from sight and treated as such a taboo topic that it became an object of intense sexual obsession. In the Victorian era, the word “leg” was so forbidden that it couldn’t be uttered in polite society, lest men be driven wild with lust. Even now, 80 years after women’s legs came out of hiding, their allure remains strong.

In this third book of Dian Hanson’s wildly successful body parts series, she explores how freeing the female leg became central to women’s liberation, beginning with the French Revolution and ending with the sexual revolution. Over 400 photos document the first burlesque “leg shows” of the 1800s, the silk-stockinged flappers of the 1920s, the nylon-mania of the 1940s, the dawn of the stiletto heel in the 1950s, all leading to the golden age of leg magazines in the 1960s. Learn 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, while enjoying great vintage photos by Irving Klaw, Batters, and other great masters of leg art.
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Forbidden Erotica
Taschen; 25th Anniversary ed. edition (July 15, 2005); ISBN-10: 3822841102

TASCHEN's 25th anniversary - Special edition! From bloomers to bikinis: sexy photos since the early days of photography

Mark Rotenberg was inspired to begin collecting lost and forgotten erotic photographs after he stumbled upon over a thousand very graphic vintage photos in a dumpster in Brooklyn. His collection now tops out at about 95,000 photos covering the period from 1860 to 1960.

This special 25th anniversary edition draws highlights from Rotenberg's collection of crazy hardcore photographs that would make your grandmother squirm. How odd it is to see ladies in bloomers and corsets with men sporting handlebar moustaches, transfixed in the raunchiest of positions!
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Erotic: The New Erotic Photography by Dian / Kroll Hanson (Editors)
Taschen; 25th ed. edition (April 1, 2009); ISBN-10: 3836512424

Imagine walking into a room filled with the world's finest contemporary erotic photographers, each with a portfolio of his or her best work. As you browse the photographs they discuss inspiration, censorship, how to find models, and how to make a living capturing beautiful women on film and in pixels.

The New Erotic Photography is the room, and 55 photographers from 12 countries are the hosts of this intimate gathering. In this 420 page volume you will meet Ralph Gibson, Jan Saudek, Terry Richardson, Natacha Merritt, Petter Hegre, Richard Kern, Bob Carlos Clarke and the many fresh new talents currently redefining eroticism. Playful, provocative and exuberantly sexy, these aren't your granddad's art nudes; this is The New Erotic Photography.

"When you call it art, you can keep really hot photos right there on the coffee table. No one pulls this trick off like TASCHEN, the art-book publisher that made smut a cultural celebration. This new collection features the sexiest nudes you're likely to see outside the pages of Penthouse, including work by Steve Diet Goedde, Natasha Merritt, Craig Morey, Dave Naz, and many others—and was compiled by acclaimed adult editor Dian Hanson and fetish photographer Eric Kroll. The international cast of visionaries captures the allure of women doing everything from eating ice cream or licking their own nipples to lounging languidly for a smoke or simply showing off a sumptuous behind; the book includes quotations from the photos articulating their inspiration." —Penthouse, New York
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Erotica Universalis: From Pompeii to Picasso
Taschen; Abridged edition (July 15, 2005); ISBN-10: 3822841021

From the dawn of time, ever since Adam and Eve, all artists of every age—whether the Egyptian, Greek and Roman artists of Antiquity, or more recent famous names as Rembrandt, Courbet, Degas or Picasso—have succumbed to their fantasies, obsessions and libido, and produced erotic works that the censors have taken good care to keep from the public. For Erotica, we surface from the subterranean realms of the museums to enter those of our national and private libraries. Here we discover that not only most of our famous writers, such as Ovid, Aretino, Voltaire, Verlaine or Maupassant, wrote erotic texts that bordered on indecency, but also that great artists like Boucher, Fragonard, Dalí or Matisse were inspired to provide suitable illustrations for these naughty books.

For this special anniversary edition, we have culled highlights from our Erotica Universalis collection. A banquet for the imagination and a feast of the eye!

The author: Gilles Néret was an art historian, journalist, writer, and museum correspondent. He organized several art retrospectives in Japan and founded the SEIBU museum and the Wildenstein Gallery in Tokyo. He directed art reviews such as L`Oeil and Connaissance des Arts and received the Elie Faure Prize in 1981 for his publications. Néret is the editor of TASCHEN'S catalogues raisonnés of the works of Monet and Velázquez, as well as the author of Dali The Paintings and Erotica Universalis. He died on August 3, 2005.
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Flagrante Delicto by William Santillo (Photographer)
Rosalbino Press; First edition (2008); ISBN-10: 0981740405

"This new book of erotic photography from American/Canadian photographer Will Santillo is one of the genre's finest publications in many years... in fact, it's one of the most perfect productions ever. It's simply masterful! In both its production and content. Flagrante Delicto (Latin for 'Caught in the Act') is a Limited Edition and will consist of only 1000 copies. It is a superb publication in every way, bound in hardcover, with gargantuan dimensions of 12x12.75". It's 156 pages contain 125 exquisite, tri-toned photographs. It is the first book of a planned three-volume production, called the Risque Series.  . . .

"Flagrante Delicto is the work of a modern master working at the height of his powers. It would stand as a fitting climax in the career of most art photographers. That two more works are due to come from this body of work is astounding." —Jack Gilbert, Michelle7.com Editor
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Gil Elvgren: All His Glamorous American Pin-Ups
Taschen; 25th anniversary edition (January 1, 2008); ISBN-10: 3836503050

Post-depression America was in desperate need of a defining iconography that would lift it out of the black and white doldrums, and it came in the form of Gil Elvgren's Technicolor fantasies of the American dream. His technique - which earned him a reputation as "The Norman Rockwell of cheesecake" - involved photographing models and then painting them into gorgeous hyper-reality, with longer legs, more flamboyant hair and gravity-defying busts, and in the process making them the perfect moral-boosting eye-candy for every homesick private.

"Glamour is back... TASCHEN offers us a look back at these calendar and advertisement goddesses of which Gil Elvgren is king." erotisme-fr.com, France
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The Big Penis Book by Dian Hanson (Editor)
Taschen (June 25, 2008); ISBN-10: 3836502135

The fascinating phallus, undressed to impress.

After the bust out success of The Big Book of Breasts TASCHEN presents the perfect companion, The Big Penis Book.

When it comes to pleasure, size doesn't matter; as we all know its quality, not quantity, that counts. But lets admit it: a big penis is undeniably compelling. Big shoulders, big lapels, and big hair may come and go, but the big penis never goes out of fashion. With those possessing more than 8 inches (20 cm) making up less than 2% of the worlds population, this rare accessory will always fascinate.

In The Big Penis Book editor Dian Hanson explores the centuries-old fascination with the large phallus, a fascination common to men and women alike. This hefty book is profusely illustrated with over 400 historic photos of spectacular male endowments, including rare photos of the legendary John Holmes. The majority of the photographs are from the 1970s, when the sexual revolution first freed photographers to depict the male entirely nude.

Photographers include Bob Mizer of Athletic Model Guild, David Hurles of Old Reliable, Colt, Falcon, Sierra Domino, Third World, and Champion Studios, with each of these iconic photographers interviewed or profiled, along with information about each of their models. And if this isn't enough, the book closes with a special surprise comparable to the Guinness Book of Records Norma Stitz featured in The Big Book of Breasts!  Can you guess what body part Dian is dissecting next?
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Two Knotty Boys Showing You The Ropes:
A Step-by-Step, Illustrated Guide for Tying Sensual and Decorative Rope Bondage
Green Candy Press (November 20, 2006); ISBN-10: 193116049X

When Two Knotty Boys, Dan and J. D., began teaching rope bondage together in 1999, they discovered that most people learn best when they're shown close up, step by step, and repeatedly how to tie basic knots and combine them into bondage techniques. It is this learning process that they duplicate in this book. With the help of world-renowned photographer Larry Utley, they use over 750 photos and captions to explicate the soup-to-nuts techniques for turning great knots into great bondage that is safe, sensual, attractive, and effective.

Readers can learn at their own pace, review whole techniques at a single glance, or even lay it flat on the table (beside their blindfolded partner) and follow along as they tie. Two Knotty Boys Showing You the Ropes appeals to those interested in improving the quality of their sex lives, not to mention aficionados of bondage and discipline/sadomasochism (BDSM), both curious newcomers and serious players alike.
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H2O by Howard Schatz (Photographer)
Bulfinch (November 12, 2007); ISBN-10: 0316117757

Acclaimed photographer Howard Schatz broke new ground in the 1990s with his books WATER DANCE and POOL LIGHT, two collections of luminous photographs of dancers, some clothed and some nude, all taken underwater. His underwater photography has been called uncanny, lithe and athletic, exquisitely real, and mysterious, and has been widely imitated in art and advertising. The dancers seem to transcend time and space to become floating, ethereal objects. Schatz's new underwater photographs are shot in a state-of-the-art, custom-built pool fitted with studio lights and covered with a giant dome to regulate temperature. The results are stunning. His unique images—at once lyrical, fantastic, and palpably real—express the beauty of inspired movement magically free of the restrictions of gravity.

Howard Schatz is the author of 15 books of photography, including the critically acclaimed Athlete. He lives in New York with wife and business partner, Beverly Ornstein.
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Shunga: The Erotic Art of Japan by Marco Fagioli
Universe Publishing (August 15, 1998); ISBN-10: 0789302454

Shunga, or "images of spring," are erotic polychrome engravings painted by the masters of the Japanese Ukiyo-e school during the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. The shunga served as illustrations for love novels, instructive albums for young wives, and even lucky charms for warriors.

This book is the first to present a special collection of rare, previously unpublished prints, enriched by texts that introduce the various periods and defining characteristics of the genre. Unabashed and exquisitely rendered, these images are a surprising accessible visual chronicle of erotic fine art.
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Pink Box: Inside Japan's Sex Clubs by Joan Sinclair
Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (October 1, 2006); ISBN-10: 0810992590

In Pink Box, photographer Joan Sinclair takes us on a journey inside the secret world of fuzoku (commercial sex) in Japan, a world where kawaii (cute) collides with consumerism and sex.

Unrivaled in their creativity and the sheer number of choices, the clubs featured in this book offer their clientele every fantasy imaginable. Subway groping, visits to the nurse's office, and comic book character encounters are just the beginning of the immense list of possibilities that are played out in colorful playrooms for adults where no detail is overlooked. Sinclair's photographs capture it all, while an introduction by sociologist James Farrer provides a brief history of commercial sex in Japan and places the images in the context of contemporary Japanese culture.
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Butt Book: Best of Butt Magazine by Gert Jonkers, Jop Van Bennekom (editors)
Taschen (November 2006); ISBN: 3822830216

Best of BUTT: Bringing back the "sex" in homosexuality...

Since its first legendary issue in 2001, international quarterly magazine BUTT has been bringing together groups of young alternative gay guys all around the world, connecting fashion, sex, and art with a good sense of irony.

Put together by the magazine's founding editors Jop van Bennekom and Gert Jonkers in collaboration with photographer Wolfgang Tillmans, this book is a 'best of' compilation of the first 17 issues of BUTT, full of interviews with famous personalities and photographs by the likes of Terry Richardson, Inez van Lamsweerde, and Wolfgang Tillmans as well as unknown talent. Collectors of the magazine who have been desperately searching for rare back issues will be able to round out their collections with this compendium, which will also be a delight for those who haven't yet discovered the joy of BUTT.
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The Big Book of Breasts by Dian Hanson
Taschen (November 2006); ISBN: 3822833037

Say no to silicone: The greatest natural breasts of our times...

Some call it the American obsession, but men everywhere recognize the hypnotic allure of a large and shapely breast. In The Big Book of Breasts, Dian Hanson explores the origins of mammary madness through three decades of natural big-breasted nudes. Starting with the World War II Bosom-Mania that spawned Russ Meyer, Howard Hughes's The Outlaw and Frederick's of Hollywood, Dian guides you over, around, and in between the dangerous curves of infamous models including Michelle Angelo, Candy Barr, Virginia Bell, Joan Brinkman, Lorraine Burnett, Lisa De Leeuw, Uschi Digard, Candye Kane, Jennie Lee, Sylvia McFarland, Margaret Middleton, Paula Page, June Palmer, Roberta Pedon, Rosina Revelle, Candy Samples, Tempest Storm, Linda West, June Wilkinson, Julie Wills, and dozens more, including Guinness World Record holder Norma Stitz, possessor of the World's Largest Natural Breasts.

The 420 pages of this book contain the most beautiful and provocative black and white and color photos ever created of these iconic women, plus nine original interviews, including the first with Tempest Storm and Uschi Digard in over a decade, and the last with Candy Barr before her untimely death in 2005.

In a world where silicone is now the norm, these spectacular real women stand as testament that nature knows best.
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The Playmate Book by Gretchen Edgren
Taschen (November, 2005); ISBN 3822848247

Beloved Bunnies! In celebration of Playboy magazine's 50th anniversary, TASCHEN brings you this ultimate Playboy Playmate tribute featuring each and every Playmate of the Month since issue number one. 

Beginning with Marilyn Monroe herself and including such favorites as Pamela Anderson, Anna Nicole Smith, and Jenny McCarthy, this chronological look at the history of Playboy centerfolds includes photos of the Playmates as well as updated personal information about their lives to this day - just enough to spark your memory or pique your interest and surely leaving you yearning for more...
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Sin-A-Rama: Sleaze Sex Paperbacks of the Sixties
Feral House (November 9, 2004); ISBN 1932595058

Swappers, swingers, transvestites, nymphos, hookers, dominatrixes, lesbians in the 1960s, these stock characters were staples of the naughty novel, and their lurid antics formed an entire genre dubbed "sleaze" by legions of avid modern-day collectors. Uncovering a racy repository of American fantasies and fears from more than 40 years ago, Sin-A-Rama ravishes readers with the splendidly spicy cover art of the period's top illustrators as well as entertaining excerpts from the best and worst of the genre. 

Cultural commentary is featured as well, including fascinating accounts of the ways in which the genre's publishers - often mobsters - would distribute their titles to the public.
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The Seductive Art of Japanese Bondage by Midori, Craig Morey (Photographer)
(December 1, 2001) Greenery Pr; ISBN: 1890159387

From ornately decorative to excruciatingly stringent, Japanese rope bondage is an art which has developed over centuries of martial and erotic practice. Now, accomplished Japanese-born pro-domme and bondage practitioner Midori shows step by step how to achieve beautiful and exciting Japanese bondage on a variety of genders and body types. Each chapter starts with a spectacular, tasteful full-color photo of the finished bondage pose - harnesses, hogties, standing and bent-over poses, and more - then goes back and explains with text and line art how each rope and knot is placed to achieve the final result. Readers can use the detailed instructions to experiment safely and erotically with their own partners - or simply enjoy viewing the pictures of Midori`s expertise.
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