![]() ![]() 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. Over 200 original works by the pair are being exhibited together for the first time by TASCHEN Gallery, Los Angeles.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. A champion of strong women, his female dominance illustrations showed men getting their just desserts at the mercy of powerful and authoritative women in an age that was still to acknowledge feminism as a movement. Ever since watching Famke Janssen’s Xenia Onatopp nearly strangling James Bond to death with her thighs in GoldenEye (I’ve always thought that would be among the best ways to be murdered), Stanton was way ahead of his time on the topic of punitive face-sitting. Eric Stanton’s niche, on the other hand, is altogether more palatable. For someone who is staunchly anti-feet his work is hard to swallow, but each to his own I suppose. “The Dean of Leg Art” (possibly the worst ever nickname?) was lauded for his innovative presentation of this particular kink, but the conservative American courts were less impressed by the explicit nature of his photography, labelling it “dangerously perverse” and constantly trying to find grounds to prosecute. Photographer Elmer Batters was to become the doyen of foot fetishists everywhere. Elmer Batters and Eric Stanton were two such figures liberated by their military experiences otherwise destined for careers as a commercial photographer or illustrator respectively, they made it out of the war alive and emerged into the new world with a determination to follow their artistic noses, wherever it may lead them. ![]() There’s nothing like a near death experience to make one throw off the shackles of convention and embrace one’s true self, and the Second World War was that catalyst for a generation of artists. ![]()
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