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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Clean Cartoonists' Dirty Drawings by Craig Yoe (Editor)
Last Gasp, October 1997; ISBN-10: 086719653X

The risqué artwork in this engaging volume shows what happens when artists in the squeaky-clean fields of comic books, comic strips, and animation color their drawing boards blue. Here are rare private sketches by such renowned talents as Milton Caniff (Steve Canyon), George Herriman (Krazy Kat), Al Capp (Li’l Abner), Mort Walker (Beetle Bailey), Johnny Hart (B.C.), Joe Shuster (Superman), and Bob Kane (Batman). Some, like Carl Barks (Donald Duck), Hank Ketchum (Dennis the Menace), and Dan De Carlo (Archie), are represented by naughty gags drawn for girlie magazines; Alex Raymond (Flash Gordon) and Cliff Sterrett (Polly and Her Pals), by pinups for the troops of World War II.

Perhaps the most unexpected entry is a vision of Wonder Woman skinny-dipping by the chaste Amazon princess’ first limner, Harry G. Peter. Most of the drawings are pretty tame, though Wally Wood’s fabled Disneyland orgy, created for Paul Krassner’s counterculture magazine The Realist, and the image accompanying a foreword by R. Crumb, who’s nobody’s idea of a clean cartoonist, definitely aren’t. —Gordon Flagg
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Sex to Sexty: The Most Vulgar Magazine Ever Made! by Dian Hanson (Editor)
Taschen, 2008; ISBN-10: 3822852236

Some call it the most vulgar magazine ever made; others see it as the last honest compendium of American sexual humor, starting just as the sexual revolution was expanding minds and stomping taboos, and ending when political correctness made all such humor socially unacceptable. Whatever your stance, the magazine Sex to Sexty was and is an outrageous collection of dirty jokes and cartoons published from 1965 to 1983 by Texas entrepreneur John Newbern, whose life was lifted straight from the pages of his publication. His partner in crime against good taste was hillbilly artist Pierre Davis, who created elaborate oil painted covers for each issue that celebrate every permutation of manly humor. No topic was safe from the lowbrow wit of these two men and the cartoonists they recruited to preserve what they called the "True Jokelore of America".

Sex to Sexty reproduces all 198 covers of the magazine and many of the original paintings that adorned them. Then, in the first in-depth analysis of American sexual humor, author and editor Dian Hanson categorizes the great themes revealed by the thousands of cartoons and jokes into spreads with titles like "Stinkfinger," "Incest on the Best," "Cannibal Cuisine," and "I Love Ewe!" Raw, irreverent, uncensored and all-American, Sex to Sexty spares no gender, sexual preference, ethnic orientation, or hygienic dysfunction in bringing you what the magazine's original publisher called the "World's Largest Accumulation of He-Man Robust Humor in the World." Special fold-out dust jacket shows every cover image and unfolds to reveal a poster of a never before seen, unreleased Sex to Sexty cover originally deemed "too tasteless" by the magazine's publisher, but definitely "suitable for framing in your bar, rumpus room or bathroom".
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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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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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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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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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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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