Fetish photography - Definition and Overview

A fetish photographer is a photographer who takes photographs of people in fetishistic situations, such as in bondage, or wearing rubber or leather clothing. More extreme fetish photography depicts paraphiliac acts such as urination, enemas, or SM activities.

A bondage photographer is a fetish photographer specialising in depictions of people in bondage.

Depending on your point of view, fetish photography can be fine art, erotica, pornography or perhaps a combination of these.

Once only published in bondage magazines, fetishistic photography is now also published as "art books". The publisher Taschen has been a prominent force in getting fetishistic imagery accepted into the mainstream. Bondage and fetish imagery has also made its way into mainstream pornographic magazines.

The pioneering fetish photographer was arguably John Willie, who published a famous fetishistic magazine, "Bizarre" from 1946 to 1959.

Photographers whose work has involved fetishistic elements:

• Nobuyoshi Araki
• Patrick Barnes
• Elmer Batters
• Barbara Behr (also ran bondage publisher House of Milan)
• Phil Carson
• John Blakemore
• Steve Diet Goedde
• Sean Harper
• Richard Kern
• Irving Klaw
• Eric Kroll
• Edward Lee
• Dave Naz
• Helmut Newton
• Suze Randall
• Ian Rath
• John Willie

See also

• Fetish artists
• Bondage artists
• Bondage models
• List of bondage models, writers, photographers and artists

External links

• Open Directory category: Fetish photographers (http://dmoz.org/Adult/Arts/Photography/Photographers/Fetish/)