Chas Ray Krider

Phoebe Arnold’s main fashion story for Ponystep 04 (Winter 2013) was shot by fetish photo artist Chas Ray Krider – he’s one of my all-time favorites. Don’t wait – BambiAttack has the entire glorious set here.

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One of the most important and influential books – for me – in the recent decades of fetish photography and style was Chas Ray Krider’s Motel Fetish. I remember the minute I got that hardcover book in my hands; the way I saw the world went pervertedly upside-down and sexy, forever. Which is why I’m really excited to see that the Motel Fetish book is back in print!

And at the same time, the photographer behind it all, Chas Ray Krider, has re-launched the Motel Fetish website. Do stop by and see the beautiful girls in each of the rooms, a stable of dolls that include Angela Ryan, Dita Von Teese, yummy yummy Vaunt, Kelsey Dylan

You can buy Motel Fetish direct from Krider here.

I also have fond memories of Krider’s work, as one of his (non-nude) photos on one of my Facebook pages was the target of my very first coordinated and publicized Facebook trolling and systematic page takedowns (successful) by anti-porn activists.

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Like many people, I wish I had a lot of money and obedient robot clones. If I was this kind of sex blogging criminal mastermind I would already have V-Bot 22 on a jet to London with a really nice DSLR camera to attend the Saturday opening of Body to Body at at London’s Ordinary-Light gallery. (My robot clone would have skipped tonight’s opening reception from 6-9 in favour of her usual appointment with Charlie Brooker, Richard Ayoade, Eddie Izzard and the entire contents of Sh!) Okay, maybe that’s the nail polish fumes speaking. Hey, it’s friday night and I’m here with a computer and lots of porn. And I really want to see Body to Body. Think about it. Anyway, if you’re in London and you can see the exhibit, please do — it has large-scale color photographs from Chas Ray Krider’s “Motel Fetish” and images from one of my new favorite erotic photographers Frederic Fontenoy. If you’re a Dita fan, she’s one of the featured models. The show runs from May 15th – June 18th, 2010 and Ordinary-Light is by appointment at 29-31 Saffron Hill, London ECN1 8SW.

If you’re in San Francisco on Saturday night, the underground phenom known as Rope::Burn is what you want. A friend just told me about it, and I got permission to blog photos and info: It is a semi-private event, described as this: “I could tell you that Rope::Burn is an underground, erotic Japanese rope bondage show. On show night, we feature at least two acts where a beautiful model is tied, tormented, and pleasured before your eyes. Beautiful waitresses serve you refreshing adult beverages while you relax in a nightclub setting.”

Sounds great to me. Most readers, no matter how many robot clones you have, probably can’t make it — so enjoy this video and please enjoy some choice photos from past Rope:Burn’s after the jump. All Rope::Burn photos below are Copyright (c) 2008-2010 Paul Traina, all rights reserved. (Yes that’s Kink star Miss Maggie Mayhem being a very naughty schoolgirl.)

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Image by Kitty Maer and Wolfgang Parker.

I was poking around Chas Ray Krider’s blog — he of the incredible Motel Fetish photo series — and saw that he had work up over in Stern.de’s free erotic galleries. Then I realized I hadn’t looked at their galleries in a long, time. They’re highly recommended if you want to goo and ga at beautiful girls photographed by some seriously talented erotic/fetish photographers. My favorite discovery from the lot is Kitty Maer, whose online portfolio is difficult to round up, but her Stern gallery is sumptuous (popup gallery, fyi).

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It’s been about a year since I stopped reviewing sex books and videos for Good Vibes, but I was there long enough to watch the world of sex and art coffee table books go through a revolution. And Taschen, publisher of all kinds of those glossy, tasteful and gorgeous books, was one of the biggest players in the edgy art and sex book scene. They weren’t the only ones, but they published sensational, very hot and wildy popular (and then-groundbreaking) books like Digital Diaries, Forbidden Erotica, Vlastimil Kula, Chas Ray Krider’s Motel Fetish and Roy Stuart‘s collections. These explicit gems were of course after Taschen published Eric Kroll’s Fetish Girls, which when it came out in 1996 (before my time at GV), heralded the first wave of new fetish photo, perhaps even unintentionally grandfathering the altporn genre.

I was thinking about all this last night, where at the Kink Ink event (to which I dragged captives Sean Bonner, Jason DeFillippo, Simone and David and Hornboy) I got to meet Carlos Batts and April Flores, in person for the first time. I sat with Carlos and April and while he showed me his new and upcoming work, we bonded over the anicient, dinosaur-era attitudes toward sex and erotica (and gender, body, race and art) a la Hugh Hefner and his contemporaries, which still seems to inform today’s erotic photography and perceptions of truly, authentically erotic sexuality. Batts couldn’t put down his cameras the entire time I saw him last night; his vibe was gentle and cool but it seemed to me like his eyes were seeing and somehow wildly consuming things the rest of us couldn’t, and he had to catch it all quick, before it got away. Of course, Carlos is published by one of many upstart publishers who like to take risks with young, exciting artists like Batts (pictured), but it still made me wonder, whatever happened to Taschen?

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