4/18/2023 0 Comments Elmer batters![]() ![]() I think love or even sexual attraction comes from the sparkle in a girl’s eyes, the lift of her eyebrow, and the way her lips curl into that provocative smirk that hooks a man’s soul like a hapless mackerel. Here’s Batters on Caruska’s many appealing attributes: According to Batters he found Caruska at a Hollywood Boulevard casting company called Pretty Girl International where the beautiful model was apparently having a hard time finding work as she was considered to be “ unconventionally heavy” for the time. Batters referred to the mysterious Caruska (pictured above) as his “favorite model” and she was a huge hit with his foot-fetish fan base. Sometime in the late 1980 German publisher Benedikt Taschen stumbled on Battles work in Leg Show magazine and would go on to put out three remarkable books containing the photographer’s work- From the Tip of the Toes to the Top of the Hose, Legs That Dance to Elmer’s Tune, and one dedicated to the foot enthusiast’s main muse, a model named Caruska, Elmer Batters - The Caruska Sittings. Though the non-stop harassment of the authorities eventually pushed Batters out of the publishing world, he would continue his work photographing the feet pin-up models clad in thigh-high seamed stockings in various stages of nudity for decades. A foot fetishist in the 1950s was still viewed as a creepy sexual deviant. When Batters was getting his start in the 1950s he helped lead the charge to draw admirers of feet and legs to a larger audience. The fetish model known as ‘Caruska’ on a swing by Elmer Batters. The work of fetish photographer Elmer Batters was considered so aberrant back in the 1960s that he was actually arrested for pictures he took for his leg and foot-centric fetish photography in his magazines Man’s Favorite Pastime and Black Silk Stockings on the charge of “obscenity.” While many of Batters’ photographs included topless models flashing their breasts the subject of Johnny Law’s ire was Batters’ focus on the models stocking feet. I felt that people almost saw me as un-American for not mooning over large mammaries. TASCHEN published Elmer Batters: From the tip of the toes to the top of the hose (1996), and The Art of Eric Stanton: For The Man Who Knows His Place (1997) and returned these singular talents to fashion and recognition.A photograph by pioneering foot fetish photographer, Elmer Batters. In over 200 original works Bizarre Life showcases these artists together for the first time, creating a forum to explore the origins of our current sexual autonomy while raising questions of power and dominance, sexual freedom and sexual repression, while examining their far reaching effects on contemporary art.īizarre Life is curated by Dian Hanson and Benedikt Taschen in collaboration with Richard Perez. ![]() “I felt that people almost saw me as un-American for not mooning over large mammaries,” he said. The bigger the better,” was his motto.Įlmer Batters was dubbed the Dean of Leg Art for his unique approach to photo- graphing women’s legs and feet, but while his work brought solace to legions of foot fetishists, the courts called it dangerously perverse and hounded him his whole life. Today, his work is defined as female empowerment, and as caricature of female-dominance fantasy – a dichotomy that delights contemporary culture, but initially forced him into abusive underworld partnerships in a pre-feminist society averse to female strength. He created thrilling panel stories and colorful pulp fiction covers of voluptuous, demanding women overpowering uppity males. But after the clarifying effect of near death, each embraced his difference, and returned home to hack a heroic creative path through contemptuous and villainous publishers, multiple arrests, loss of family, and occasionally, freedom, to be who he had to be.Įric Stanton known as The Rembrandt of Pop Culture, was an inspiration for artists such as Richard Lindner, Allen Jones and Helmut Newton. If not for the moral chaos of World War II, Eric Stanton and Elmer Batters might have sublimated their indecent obsessions and spent lives illustrating catalogs, or photo- graphing weddings. ![]()
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