OSTRA STUDIO Fetish Fashion Bondage S/M Paris 1930s

 

The fetish, bondage, female domination photographs, created by the combined talents of the Ostra and Biederer Studios remains some of the the most seductive fantasy imagery produced anywhere during the 1920s and early 1930s. Exceptional models, impeccably dressed in fetishistic clothing, were posed in submissive "tableaux vivante" and photographed. The studio team, comprised of two brothers, emigres to Paris from Hungary (the town of Moraska-Ostrava), created unparalleled imagery, posing talented models in marvelous fetish clothing. The final product, beautifully composed photographs, printed on the highest quality photo paper from excellent negatives, were unsurpassed and stand high above the rest of the 1920s/'30s genre photographs. Tragically, the brothers, Jews living in Paris at the time of the occupation, were sent separately to concentration camps in Germany, where both were killed. Curated from the Vasta Archives.

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EXOTIQUE Magazine 1950s Fetish Fashions

EXOTIQUE Magazine 1950s Fetish Fashions

A miscellany from the Vasta archives of magazines published by Exotique magazine aka Burmel Publications. Photographs, illustrations, fetish fashion. All digest sized from the late 1950s 

featuring the "bizarre and the unusual".

Exotique Personality Series #3 featuring Lynne Carter

Photo Album #4

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OSTRA STUDIO Fetish Fashion Bondage S/M Paris 1930

The fetish, bondage, female domination photographs created by the combined talents of the Ostra and Biederer Studios remains some of the the most seductive fantasy imagery produced anywhere during the 1920s and early 1930s. Exceptional models, impeccably dressed in fetishistic clothing, were posed in submissive "tableaux vivante" and photographed. The studio team, comprised of two brothers, emigres to Paris from Hungary (the town of Moraska-Ostrava), created unparalleled imagery, posing talented models in marvelous fetish clothing. The final product, beautifully composed photographs, printed on the highest quality photo paper from excellent negatives, were unsurpassed and stand high above the rest of the 1920s/'30s genre photographs. Tragically, the brothers, Jews living in Paris at the time of the occupation, were sent separately to concentration camps in Germany, where both were exterminated.

Here's a sampling of some of my favorite vintage, original Ostra Studio photographs, all of which are available for purchase in my eBay store. 

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Medium format 

Postcard format

Stereo format

Seductive nudes + risque lingerie

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EXOTIQUE Magazine Large Format Fetish Photos 1950s

A colleague contacted me a few years ago and spoke of an exceptional stash of fetish magazines and photographs that was unearth in the Bronx. The owner, I was told, was the brother of the deceased and when he arrived at his brother's apartment, which he had not been to in many years, the place was filled with all kinds of old paper including periodicals and photographs published by Irving Klaw and Burmel/Selbee (Exotique magazine). It's not that unusual a story in the trade, but unfortunately for me, this time, I missed the boat for the majority of the material. However, I did get the chance to eventually serve as "undertaker" for the remnants, pitched into boxes on the floor of an overheated warehouse. It was severely pick-over and by this time, what ever was worthwhile, was overpriced.

The reward at the end of the long trip out to Long Island to look at the material was a small box filled with 8" x 10" photographs which almost went unnoticed. Inside was a group of exceptional high quality prints made for Exotique magazine, late 1950s/early 1960s. As presented here it obviously matters little to the viewer the size of the original photographs. The double fold impact of the photographs, and the more important aspect of this post, is the rarity of these images appearing as original photographs in any format.

Great models, severe looks and smiles plus lots of legs, corsets, garters, stockings, shoes and boots. 

At the Los Angeles (Hollywood Hills?) Spider pool

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