Paris VASTA EDITIONS Launch + PAPER SHOW Oct'16

I'm off to Paris next week to catch up with what's going on, see all the usual suspects at the Bibliomania book and paper show 10.20-10.23. I will also be there for the "official" Paris launch of the latest book from Vasta Editions, Doctor Seek And Mister Hide at an in-store, one night "pop-up" event. Please join us starting at 4pm until 8pm, Saturday 10.22 at the Editions Loco bookstore, 6 rue Montmorency 75003. I will be in Paris 10.12-10.26. If you're in town for the paper show get in touch for coffee or drinks and join the book party!

 

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Gene Bilbrew FETISH ART Irving KLAW Studio 1950s

Irving Klaw's New York City studio is arguably most well known for his early 1950s photographs of Bettie Page. As many collectors are aware there was much more going on at Klaw's 14th Street location then selling movie star, pin-up and bondage photographs (Klaw never made photos of nudes believing that would get him into trouble with the law!). He created Mutrix publications and the digest size magazine series as a vehicle for fetish, bondage and cross-dressing themed publications, illustrated with photographs as well as artwork by Eric Stanton and Gene Bilbrew. Along the way Klaw also published many bondage illustrations and stories as "serial", sets of 12, 24 or 48 plates recreating original illustrations on glossy photographic paper. 

Here is a selection of those "serial" illustrations. Even though signed by different artists (Brody, Van Rod), they are all by Gene Bilbrew, aka Eneg. 

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EROTICA 1 Magazine ~ Fetish iIllustrations 1960s

Erotica 1 a "one shot" published in the United States, circa 1963, was a collection of images and photographs "borrowed" from other magazines. The main interest here are the very unusual fetish illustrations that I believe originated in England on the pages of some of their early 1960s fetish magazines. 

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