We Are Alt: Nicholas Price’s Fetish Photography

Acclaimed photographer Nicholas A. Price reveals his latest collection, titled We Are Alt. Price travels into the realm of the alternative, training his creative eye towards what some would call the darker side of human nature, the sensual and erotic world of human fetish in all its fascinating forms. It’s a visually stimulating photographic journey into the pleasure principle. Read more

Porn for Women and Couples by Erika Lust

The Swedish film director Erika Lust has released a new short film called Handcuffs, which is entirely free of charge to download and own. There’s no catch – it’s really free, to introduce Lust Films, of Barcelona. Their films are always directed by women and they’re much more creative and stylish than the general run of adult movies. Read more

Support Maria Beatty’s new Film!

Award-winning filmmaker Maria Beatty is the top director working with fetish imagery today. Every fetish film fan with style knows her website at www.bleuproductions.com. If you don’t have The Black Glove and The Elegant Spanking in your collection, you are missing out! Read more

RUBBER DOLL :: A book of art by Trevor Brown

This collection of paintings might suit you if you were into two things: rubber and dolls. So, already we know the title is spot on. Trevor Brown is a world reknowned English artist living in Japan, specialising in eerie child-like illustrations in macabre settings, which, essentially, is what this book is about. The main focus, as the title suggests, seems to be based on all manner of rubber gear and garb, with small doses of medical fetishism and Bondage. Think Harajuku Girls dipped in a slick film of gloomy perversion. Read more

Bob Carlos Clarke Retrospective

The Little Black Gallery, in association with the Bob Carlos Clarke Foundation, will be exhibiting the first retrospective of the work of the legendary photographer Bob Carlos Clarke, three years after his death. Read more

Flagrante Delicto, New Erotica by Will Santillo

There must be a thousand books of kinky sex photographs on the market. Most of them are crap. A pretty model in a rubber dress and heels, maybe carrying a whip, and you’re done. We get loads of them at Skin Two. Most get a quick glance and then it’s down to the local charity shop. They love us in there. Read more

Kris Wlodarski’s modern erotica

 The modern images of saints? “While there are certainly sexual themes in the paintings of Kris Wlodarski, I would be reluctant to call the works erotic. Instead I find his paintings a challenge to the viewer, mixing themes of vulnerability, fetish, isolation, dependency, and blindness with a religious undertone. But then again, since when has edgy and challenging not been associated with the darker side of erotic? Read more

PICTURES THAT KILL – THE PHOTOGRAPHY OF CHARLES GATEWOOD

SALON A REBOURS PRESENTS PICTURES THAT KILL -A 40 YEAR RETROSPECTIVE OF THE PHOTOGRAPHY OF CHARLES GATEWOOD
3rd – 24th October 2008
32 Charlotte Road, Shoreditch, EC2A 3PB

San Francisco photographer Charles Gatewood is in London for the first time since 1973 to attend Pictures That Kill, a forty-year retrospective exhibition of his work. Presented by curators À Rebours, the exhibition programme will include Performances that Kill, an evening of Live Art and happenings in the gallery space created in response to the collection by dynamic young live art production company Switch. Read more

“Anthropologist of the Forbidden” Charles Gatewood exhibits his work in London in October 08

“Gatewood’s world is freakish, earthy, blunt, erotic – most of all, terribly and beautifully alive.” A.D. Coleman, The New York Times

À Rebours (Against the Grain) are proud to present Pictures That Kill: A 40-year retrospective of the acclaimed American photographer Charles Gatewood.

The exhibition opens to the public at Gallery 32, 32 Charlotte Road, Shoreditch, on October 2, 2008 and continues until October 24th. This, Gatewoods first ever London show, will include 40 silver gelatin prints, and feature rare images of Bob Dylan, William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Annie Sprinkle, Carlos Santana, and Jimmy Page – plus vintage prints of work previously published in Gatewood’s photographic books, and ten original collages. Charles Gatewood will attend the exhibition’s opening and will host several events during his two-week visit. Read more

Erotic artist Karen Hsiao’s show opens at Corey Helford Gallery in Los Angeles

Karen Hsiao is a Chinese-American artist who was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. Growing up, Hsiao always knew that she wanted to be an artist. She loved working with her hands and creating through painting, sculpture, and photography. She went on to attend Art Center in Pasadena where she received a BFA in Illustration and developed her style as a painter. However, it was photography that became her passion. Self-taught in the art form, Hsiao is known for her antique photos infused with modern elements. Read more

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