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An erotic journey through an exceptional collection of early twentieth-century postcards, with some provocative short stories to raise the temperatureand the eyebrowsen route. In this seductive album of vintage erotica, stunning reproductions of postcards from 19.02.1937 pay homage to the great classic fantasies. All styles of fetishismfrom thigh-high boots to a particularly spectacular garter belt vie for the readers attention. The conquest of a demure secretary is played out in five scenes on a series of cards. Even the much-parodied French maid shows her saucy side, not to be outdone by a bevy of sassy dominatrices. Men with women, women with women, and various versions of the ménage à trois find their way between the sheets of this album. Four original racy tales from celebrated contemporary French authors accompany the postcards. Sexy and classy, Erotic French Postcards makes a beautiful and suggestive gift.

Manfred Baumann has created a marvelous fantasy world for us in Erotic Visions. Unlike his previous publication, Just Naked, where his work captured the beauty of nude models in a more artistic setting (black & white photos using art models) this collection of work presents a more glamorous perspective - where the models are all spectacularly sexy, well endowed physically, and adorned with perfect makeup and suggestive attire (when they're not fully nude). There are scenes involving girl-on-girl erotica as well as work that appears more editorial in nature but is still laced with a powerful sexual undercurrent.

There is no grand sense of cohesion to this work, other than the fantastic quality to Baumann's photography. But that was obviously not the intention. For as the title suggests, it's about erotic visions, or individual glimpses if you will, into a secret fantasy world where beauty reigns supreme and sexuality is the raison d'etre.

Erotic Visions features 200 photos in both color and black & white.

“Borquez nudes always look honest, authentic, and direct … There’s a spark when these women take off their clothes and show their sex appeal for him. There’s a fire when they recline on the sofa and look at us, aware of this voyeuristic moment full of sensual tension …

Fabio Borquez allows the women to be vamps and sweethearts, but most reveal the Marlene, the femme fatale, and not the innocent angel … He believes that photography is a game with the camera and its rules are written by the moment. A constantly changing moment.”

Manfred Zollner,
Assistant Editor-in-Chief Fotomagazin

„Borquez-Akte wirken immer ehrlich, authentisch und direkt… Es lodert, wenn diese Frauen die Kleider ablegen und für ihn Sex-Appeal zeigen. Es brennt, wenn sie auf dem Sofa liegen und uns entgegenblicken. Wissend um diesen voyeuristischen Moment voll sinnlicher Anspannung …

Fabio Borquez läßt die Frauen Vamp sein oder Mäuschen. Die meisten zeigen in diesem Augenblick mehr die Marlene, die Femme fatale, als den Unschuldsengel … Die Fotografie ist für ihn ein Spiel mit der Kamera, dessen Regeln der Augenblick schreibt. Und ständig ändert.“

Manfred Zollner,
Stellv. Chefredakteur Fotomagazin

Jean-Paul Four is celebrated for his magnificent nudes in black-and-white. He loves women and his photos show a clear fetishist tendency. Jean-Paul says he prefers working with non-professional models, as he feels they show greater emotional commitment. He must have some amazing friends, because his girls are all very beautiful and perfectly suit his style of outstandingly tasteful explicit photography.

Als Mode- und Werbefotograf entdeckte Jean-Paul Four die Ästhetik des nackten Frauenkörpers und ist inzwischen bekannt für seine außergewöhnliche, oft fetisch-orientiert s/w-Fotografie. Jean-Paul: „Ich bevorzuge jetzt mehr die Arbeit mit nicht-professionellen Models, weil ich fühle, daß sie mit einem tieferen emotionalen Engagement dabei sind.“ Er muß über einen erstaunlichen Freundeskreis verfügen, weil alle seine Modelle wunderschön sind und sich perfekt in seinen künstlerischen Stil einfügen, der von kraftvoller Erotik geprägt ist.

Album prezentuje obraz nowoczesnej fotografii erotycznej w wykonaniu ponad 100 fotografów z całego świata. Wybór zdjęć dokonany został wyłącznie na podstawie ich wartości artystycznych, a nie "renomy" fotografów.

I was born in 1973 in Slovakia. I started as a graphic designer at 18, a job that combines my two great passions, graphic art and photography. I've been taking pictures since 1995, when my first work was for model agencies. Today I work as a freelance photographer and graphic designer for renowned Czech and Slovak advertising and fashion companies.
For me, life is full of beauty, youth, innocence, energy and a desire to reveal the less well-known elements of femininity. I spend a great deal of time with my models to understand better how they see themselves. I help them reveal their souls and try to convey this to others in my photographs.
As for my models, I prefer natural women in real situations that I enhance with my artistic vision and imagination. I talk to the girls and try to open them to the camera. I contribute artistic form to enable the viewer to appreciate their imagination and desire, to experience the beauty and eroticism of their femininity. The pictures on my website are more sensual, more sexy, more erotic than ever.
I hope you enjoy this selection of pictures of self-confident women, the candid insights and revealing perspectives.

Ich bin 1973 in der Slowakei geboren und begann meine berufliche Karriere mit 18 Jahren als Grafiker. Ein Job, der meine beiden großen Leidenschaften vereint – visuelle Grafik und Fotografie. Seit 1995 stehe ich hinter der Kamera. Meine ersten Arbeiten waren für Model-Agenturen. Auch heute arbeite ich als freier Fotograf und Grafiker für renommierte tschechische und slowakische Werbe- und Mode-Agenturen.
Die Weiblichkeit übt auf mich eine unbezähmbare Anziehungskraft aus und ich möchte diese Quelle voller Schönheit, Jugend, Unschuld, Energie und Lust in meiner Fotografie erforschen.
Als Modelle bevorzuge ich natürliche Frauen in realen Situationen mit Visionen und Fantasie. Viele Ideen für die Fotosessions ergeben sich im Gespräch mit den Models. Das bringe ich in eine künstlerische Form, sodass Sie all ihre Fantasie und Lust, die ganze Schönheit und Erotik ihrer Weiblichkeit betrachten können. In den Bildern, die Sie auch auf meiner Website sehen können, zeigen die Frauen sich sinnlicher als je zuvor.
Erfreuen Sie sich an den offenherzigen Bildern selbstbewusster Frauen!

Erwin Blumenfeld (1897–1969) was born into a Jewish family in Berlin. In 1941, he left Europe for the United States, where five years later he became a citizen. During the forties and fifties, he was one of the most sought-after fashion photographers in the world. However, most people are not familiar with the artist’s early work: the often bitingly humorous Dada montages he produced between 1916 and 1933.

This book by Helen Adkins, a renowned expert on the Berlin Dada movement, is the first to provide an extensive study of these early works. Blumenfeld did not intend for them to be shown publicly - they were personal gifts to his friends and acquaintances or enclosed in love letters to his fiancée. The approximately one hundred works - including many that have not previously been published and which the author discovered in the artist’s family archives and in other public and private collections - will be examined within the context of Blumenfeld’s life, photographs, drawings, and literary works.

Dutch photographer Erwin Olaf's highly stylized mode of image-making offers a blend of mid-century modern and noir aesthetics, seen through a contemporary, fashion-inflected lens. In this enticing volume — the first time these three bodies of work have been presented as a whole — Olaf seduces the viewer via a mannered, restrained palette replete with faded avocado greens, golden-hued oranges, and subtle lilacs.

Each richly colored and sleekly composed image offers a sly reinterpretation of Norman Rockwell-like iconography and characters, manifesting a nostalgia that both burlesques and wryly celebrates America of the 1950s and '60s. As a whole, the material investigates what critic Jonathan Turner defines as "Olaf's recent fascination with the visual representation of such emotions as loss, loneliness, and quiet despair.... [He] plays games with the idea of cold reality versus cruel artifice, capturing that precise moment when innocence, hope, and joy are lost."

This project was made possible, in part, by generous support from the Mondriaan Foundation, Amsterdam; Hasted Hunt Gallery, New York; and the Consulate General of the Netherlands in New York.

About the Author:

Erwin Olaf (born in Hilversum, the Netherlands, 1959) graduated from the Utrecht School for Journalism, in 1980, with a degree in newspaper journalism and photojournalism. Olaf has earned several Silver Lions for his commercial work, which has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, London Sunday Times, and Vanity Fair. He is represented by Flatland Gallery, Utrecht/Paris and Hasted Hunt, New York. A  solo exhibition of his work opened at the Fotomuseum, The Hague, in 2008.

Paris promenade. Eugène Atget’s unique city portrait

A flâneur and photographer at once, Eugène Atget (1857–1927) was obsessed with walking the streets. After trying his hand at painting and acting, the native of Libourne turned to photography and moved to Paris. He supplied studies for painters, architects, and stage designers, but became enraptured by what he called “documents” of the city and its environs. His scenes rarely included people, but rather the architecture, landscape, and artifacts that made up the societal and cultural stage.

Atget was not particularly renowned during his lifetime but in the 1920s came to the attention of the Dada and Surrealist avant-garde through Man Ray. Four of his images, with their particular fusion of mimesis and mystery, appeared in the surrealist journal, La Révolution Surréaliste, while Ray and much of his artistic circle purchased Atget prints. Atget’s fame grew after his death, with several articles and a monograph by Berenice Abbott. Several leading photographers, including Walker Evans and Bill Brandt, have since acknowledged their debt to Atget.

This fresh TASCHEN edition gathers some 500 photographs from the Atget archives at Musée Carnavalet and the Bibliothèque Historique de la Ville de Paris to celebrate his outstanding eye for the urban environment and evocation of a Paris gone by. Down main streets and side streets, past shops and churches, through courtyards and arcades and the 20 arrondissements, we find a unique portrait of a beloved city and the making of a modern photographic master.

About the series:

Bibliotheca Universalis — Compact cultural companions celebrating the eclectic TASCHEN universe at an unbeatable, democratic price!

Since we started our work as cultural archaeologists in 1980, TASCHEN has become synonymous with accessible, open-minded publishing. Bibliotheca Universalis brings together more than 100 of our all-time favourite titles in a neat new format so you can curate your own affordable library of art, anthropology, and aphrodisia.

Bookworm’s delight — never bore, always excite!

Captures the photographs of 'old Paris' taken by French photographer Eugene Atget between 1898 and 1924.

French photographer Eugene Atget (February 12, 1857 - August 4, 1927) was best-known for his incredible photographs documenting the architecture and street scenes of Paris. This book showcases the images he captured between 1898 and 1924 - images of the 'old Paris', represented with an almost surreal, dream-like quality. He photographed the seine, the streets, the incredible architecture and the facades of buildings and palaces, the courtyards, apartment interiors, stairwells, parks, shop windows and the urban environment - replete with street traders, fairgrounds and prostitutes - building an enormous artistic documentary collection of the French capital. The book has been published to accompany an exhibition organised by the Mapfre Foundation in collaboration with the Museum Carnavalet in Paris that will travel to the Fotomuseum of Rotterdam and the New Gallery of Sydney.

Twenty-seven countries under the gaze of Jordi Bernadó, a photographer who collects the places and landscapes he has lived: some comical, some excessive, some implausible.

This vision speaks of a world where life continues to alter each and every element that would initially appear well-ordered.

The author’s course carries us far and wide, making us his travelling companions, indeed his accomplices in the highly personal vision he constructs. Bernadó comes accorss successively as euridte, historian, architect, sociologist, but most often as storyteller.

With a perfect mastery of colour ranges, he employs de vocabulary of documentary photography.

This survey of her extraordinary career includes not only classic and intriguing photographs of Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe, Clark Gable, Paul Newman, Joan Crawford and Elizabeth Taylor, many of whom Eve came to know closely, but also of everyday people at work and at play around the world. Regardless of the subject’s fame, Eve’s unwavering eye and her ability to convey the spirit of the person in front of the lens remains constant.

Created with Eve’s involvement, and featuring texts by Anjelica Huston and Isabella Rossellini and contributions from friends, associates and creative colleagues – Elliott Erwitt, John Tusa, David Puttnam, Michael Rand, Mary McCartney, Sheena McDonald, Jon Snow and Beeban Kidron – this book places Eve Arnold deservedly at the heart of the canon of photographic greats. It also stands as a testament to the keen attention her work has inspired from the latest creative generation.

Time, Space, and a Telescope. Hubble’s most magnificent images

Come face to face with the most breathtaking images from the Hubble Telescope, one of the greatest tools in the history of science. Updated with 30 new images to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the telescope’s launch, these epic pictures have answered some of the most compelling questions of time and space while also revealing new mysteries. Features texts by photography critic Owen Edwards, Hubble astronauts Charles F. Bolden, Jr. and John Mace Grunsfeld, and Zoltan Levay.

With investigations into everything from black holes to exoplanets, the Hubble Telescope has changed not only the face of astronomy but also our very sense of being in the universe. On the 30th anniversary of its launch into low-earth orbit, this updated edition of Expanding Universe presents 30 brand new images, unveiling more hidden gems from the Hubble’s archives.

Ultra-high resolution and taken with almost no background light, these pictures have answered some of the most compelling questions of time and space while also revealing new mysteries, like the strange “dark energy” that sees the universe expanding at an ever-accelerating rate.

The collection is accompanied by an essay from photography critic Owen Edwards and an interview with Zoltan Levay, who explains how the pictures are composed. Veteran Hubble astronauts Charles F. Bolden, Jr. and John Mace Grunsfeld also offer their insights on Hubble’s legacy and future space exploration.

The contributors

Charles F. Bolden, Jr., Major General, USMC (Ret.), is a former Administrator of NASA, where he oversaw the completion of the International Space Station. He spent 14 years as a member of NASA’s Astronaut Corps, and commanded and piloted the Space Shuttle Discovery on STS-31, which launched the Hubble Space Telescope into orbit.

Owen Edwards has written about photography for more than 30 years for numerous publications including American Photographer, New York Times Magazine, and Smithsonian.

John Mace Grunsfeld, PhD, is an astrophysicist and a NASA astronaut. He has flown five times on the Space Shuttle, including three Hubble servicing missions. He has served as the Associate Administrator for the Science Mission Directorate, the NASA Chief Scientist, and as the Deputy Director of the Space Telescope Science Institute.

Zoltan Levay is a retired principle science visuals developer at the Space Telescope Science Institute, where he worked with astronomers and communicators worldwide to publicize science results from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.