Roy Stuart. Embrace Your Fantasies: The Leg Show Photos: Embrace Your Fantasies / Power Play

Description

Between 1987 and 2001, Dian Hanson, then editor of Leg Show magazine, and photographer Roy Stuart collaborated on over 100 fetish photo shoots, producing an intensely sexual, socially transgressive body of work unmatched in contemporary erotic photography. Stuart, influenced by authors Angela Carter, William S. Burroughs, and Georges Bataille, was and remains passionately opposed to commercial pornography and insisted every photo story subvert and skewer some societally imposed sexual taboo. Women are portrayed with strength and sexual agency; men are often submissive; all are adventuresome and fluid. Hanson selected the wardrobe to appeal to a range of sexual tastes, including stocking, shoe, panty, nylon, and rubber fetishes. Viewed today, the styles and attitudes speak to the liberal hedonism of 1990s America, when, under the Clinton presidency, erotic artists were afforded more creative freedom. Power Play, the first volume in the series Roy Stuart: Embrace Your Fantasies, showcases photo stories addressing sexual power dynamics. All images are from the original transparencies, rescued from the Leg Show archives before the magazine’s demise in 2012, and presented with Hanson’s original magazine text. Join us in a trip back to the prosperous, optimistic 1990s to explore your fantasies—and perhaps some you never considered—with the richly produced sexual subversion of Roy Stuart and Dian Hanson. Review: Not bad. - It's alright. Might be more suited to kinky weirdos. Review: Okay aber etwas einseitig - Als Sammlerin von *speziellen* Bildbänden, unter denen schon einige von Dian Hanson waren, musste ich diesen natürlich auch haben. Der Bildband ist hochwertig und hat einige interessante Bilder, allerdings geht es in dieser Ausgabe primär um Fuß- und Strumpfhosenfetisch hab ich den Eindruck. Es gibt wenig Abwechslung und wenn doch, ist es etwas anderes fetischbehaftetes (zB Reitgerte in die Hintertür). Spricht mich nicht wirklich an. Aber für den reduzierten Preis von 9.99€ ist der Bildband natürlich auper günstig und erweitert meine Sammlung.