Following his discharge he married his first leg model, settled in Rancho Palas Verdes, and made a career photographing women with an emphasis on legs and feet. Batters served aboard a submarine in World War II where he became aware that his sexual tastes were different from his shipmates. Elmer Batters’ (1919–1997) fetish photography was some of the first to focus in on women's feet, legs, and stockings, giving primacy to the lower extremities in erotic and pornographic images. Check my other auctions for original Elmer Batters magazines! Classic leg and foot fetish photography book from Taschen, I will upload some images from the book using another copy that I have thats already open. Three ebooks, one optimized, delivered by download from your 30th Street Graphics account.Item: 153006775941 Legs That Dance to Elmer's Tune Elmer Batters Taschen book fetish photography. The ebook provides a convenient connection to those pretty legs in stockings and heels.Īlthough some parts of pictures are obscured on this page, the ebook shows everything that's in the original. Provocative posers invite us to join them in serene salons, where we can share quiet matinees of serious sensuality. Printed on rough paper, some photographs show texture or graininess. Tonality was adjusted and many specks retouched. The digital replica presents all content in the 30-page booklet in the original sequence. Many of these pictures look like they were taken during photo shoots for Bizarre Life magazine. The cover says - BIZARRE BEAUTIES FOR THE CONNOISSEUR. Full-fashioned stockings predominate, but seamless, patterned and lace also appear. Most wear pumps with heels of various heights, but a couple of pictures show ladies in boots. Indoors, leggy lovelies show off their pleasing curves in hosiery and garter belts. In the century after his death, ebooks present his fascination with femininity and art. By the time of Leg Art, he had become an entrepreneur with complete control of his content. Like most creative people, he developed craft and focus throughout his life. The optimized version shows each scene complete, followed by enlargements of legs, feet or other pulchritude.Įlmer Batters was a professional photographer and his magazines show good pictures, without unpleasant shadows. Interior pages printed in color are placed as monochrome. Brightness and contrast were adjusted and shading reduced. The digital replica includes all the content of the booklet in the original sequence. Even today, though, few photographers show legs, arches and ankles as nicely as these. Her cheerful countenance seems to glow about the fun she has being a pretty object of desire.īut 32 pages, one page advertises the mail order price for other Leg Art issues as $3.00, a steep price for a small volume. Renee Bond graces the covers of the booklet and appears on four other pages. Batters' exploration of this idiom defines the genre. Several photographs show calf-hugging seams and the splendid architecture of carefully posed feet within the graphics of full-fashioned hosiery. Garter belts hold stockings in place as legs position to display curves that made Mr. In this collection, models appear in, on and against automobiles - big American coupes, a station wagon and an MGB. we are sure you will agree that a woman's legs without nylons is like a day without sunshine!!!” True to his maxim, limber lovelies pose graceful limbs in classic hosiery. By the 1970s, he was selling his booklet sized Leg Art to members of his Royal Order of the Garter by subscription and mail order.Īt the end of Leg Art, Number 19, Mr. With a clear idea of a female ideal and unwavering point of view, he collaborated with magazine publishers in the 1950s and 1960s. Possibly the first photographer to use the expression Leg Art, Elmer Batters long career as photographer and publisher of pinup, cheesecake and fetish imagery earned him international appreciation.
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