Elmer Batters - Tapa dura

Elmer Batters (Spanish / English / catalan)

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Descripción Encuadernación de tapa dura. Condición: Nuevo. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Nuevo. Elmer Batters (Milwaukiee, 1919 - California, 1997) debuted as a photographer in the late 1940s. His photographs appeared in adult magazines, a new type of publication that had constituted an extraordinary publishing phenomenon in the early 1950s. Direct successors to the old pin-up posters used during the war, these posts featured photographs of girls in scant or no clothing, accompanied by spicy items. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Batters began publishing his own magazines, bearing such significant titles as Man's Favorite Pastime, of which 5,000 copies were sold, Sheer Delight, Leg-O-Rama, Nylon Doubletake, or French. Frills, in which he dealt with practically everything, from texts to photographs. These were often done in his own home, located in a suburban area of ​​Los Angeles, where he had moved in 1955 and whose garage housed his photo lab. In those tremendously Puritan years when this type of fetishism was socially unacceptable, his passion for the female foot, which was expressed through such magazines, earned him an accusation of obscenity and perversion that brought him to court. Tired of his problems with censorship, Batters abandoned the self-publishing of magazines (although not his fixation on the female legs and feet) and devoted himself entirely to photography, the technique of which he was refining and perfecting. As is known, the legs are for walking, dancing and loving. But they are also addressed to those who are fascinated by them, in a language as eloquent as poetry, said the artist regarding the object of his fetishistic passion and art. Pushed by financial problems, he devoted himself to commissioned photographic work, but his particular eroticism did not fit the demands of the editors, who were looking for images that were increasingly explicitly sexual. Batters then retired to work at his house, where he continued photographing his models, generally against a background of green curtains characteristic of his last creative period, in which he concentrated almost exclusively on photographing feet, the privileged center of his late work. . In the mid-80s, he would definitely stop working due to health problems in general and vision in particular. The publication of his old photographs in the Leg Show magazine rescued Batters from oblivion and gave him some notoriety, but the true recognition of his work would not come to him until shortly before his death, when two monographs were published (From the tip of the toes to the top of the hose in 1995 and Legs that dance to Elmer's tunes in 1997), which attracted international interest for the extraordinary quality of the photographs of this artist, who until then had not crossed the limits of the reduced universe of fetishism and that now the inimitable genius of his work is discovered. In recent years, his photographs have been exhibited in various galleries, such as Andrea Rosen from New York (2001) or Cokkie Snoei from Rotterdam (2002). His works have also appeared in group exhibitions such as those held at the Kunsthalle in Basel (2000) or the one recently dedicated to the Taschen Collection at the Museo Reina Sofía (2004/5). Nº de ref. del artículo: ABE-1628073715366

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