As a teenager, New York photographer Eric Kroll was excited by women in bondage or high heels, 'a la Betty Page', and he still is. His pictures of models in leather and rubber, bound and gagged, have made his name one of the classics in the bondage world. Published for the first time in hardback.

Wonderfully indecent pictures from famous scribblers and anonymous talents alike (TASCHEN's 25th anniversary special edition) From the dawn of time, ever since Adam and Eve, all artists of every age - whether the Egyptian, Greek and Roman artists of Antiquity, or more recent famous names as Rembrandt, Courbet, Degas or Picasso - have succumbed to their fantasies, obsessions and libido, and ...

A parchment journal featuring JRR Tolkien's classic tales.

Post-depression America was in desperate need of a defining iconography that would lift it out of the black and white doldrums, and it came in the form of Gil Elvgren's Technicolor fantasies of the American dream. His technique involved photographing models and then painting them into hyper-reality.

Bettie Page first came to notice through a glamour photograph published in Flirt magazine in 1951. Containing photographs and artists' representations, this book explores her influence on American popular culture, from dime novels to paperbacks, and from painting to advertising.