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Fetish Photography
Wednesday Date July 6, 7-10:00pm
Cost $70.00, 6 to 10 participants
Kim Taylor and Malice Orchid will lead a workshop to introduce the
concepts behind fetish photography. The workshop will include bondage,
corsettry, and pvc/vinyl.
Fetish Photography-Brief
History
by Malice Orchid
The discovery of photography during the first third of the 19th century
changed the way that we viewed the world. It comes as no surprise that
the nude is as old as the history of photography. However, fetish
photography, especially in the BDSM realm, spanking, bondage and
sadomasochism, was a secretive world driven underground by prejudice
and the persecution of those who dared to indulge in their fantasies
It was not long after the first images emerged that the desire to view
the nude form arose. Knowing without a doubt that these pictures were
of a real person, exposed, created an extra thrill for the viewer.
The earliest erotic photography was of a girl showing an exposed
shoulder, or, even more often, a study of nudes. The obscenities of
yesterday would be considered tame today. While, back then, there were
some very explicit photographs, many were simply softly sensual.
Photography made it possible for fantasies and dark secrets, once
available only to the few, to be revealed and recorded, and erotic
photography became available to the masses.
The secretive underground world that erotic fetish existed in for so
many years, meant that photographers and their fetish community were at
great risk if the photographs or activities were discovered. Any
photographs found were confiscated and destroyed. Many photographers
destroyed their own photographs when the fear of discovery came
knocking at their door.
As Oscar Wilde once said “one man’s pornography is another man’s
erotica”, but attitudes being as they were, people mistook fetish as
pornography, which is, in actuality, worlds apart, and early pictures
of the fetish genre are scarce, and often damaged.
It took a long time for fetish photography to break into mainstream
acceptance. Bondage heroines, dominant men and women, photographers who
wanted to chronicle the underground cultures, and a wealth of
interesting and colorful people have helped make fetish photography a
legitimate art form.
To register
contact Kim Taylor
519-836-4357 (Guelph) or email kataylor@ejmas.com
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