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BDSM BDSM is a variety of often erotic practices or roleplaying involving bondage, discipline, dominance and submission, sadomasochism, and other related interpersonal dynamics. Given the wide range of practices, some of which may be engaged ...

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Nobuyoshi Araki is a Japanese photographer and contemporary artist professionally known by the mononym . Known primarily for photography that blends eroticism and bondage in a fine art context, he has published over 500 books.The number depends on such things ...

Gene Bilbrew Eugene "Gene" Bilbrew (June 29, 1923 – May 1974) was an African-American vocal group singer, cartoonist, and "bizarre art" pioneer. As noted in the biography, ''GENE BILBREW REVEALED: The Unsung Legacy of a Fetish Art Pioneer'', he was "the firs ...

* Robert Bishop *

Charles Guyette Charles Guyette (August 14, 1902 – June, 1976) was a pioneer of Fetish subculture, fetish style, the first person in the United States to produce and distribute fetish art, and regarded as the mail-order predecessor of Irving Klaw. Later known ...

Jeff Gord Jeffrey E. Owen (5 May 1946 - 3 September 2013), better known by his alias Jeff Gord, was a bondage artist and photographer.Ashley Hames, ''Sin Cities'', Tonto Books, 2008, , pp. 184–188 who specialized in the forniphilia subgenre, a form of Ob ...

* Erich von Götha de la Rosière *

Sadao Hasegawa was a Japanese graphic artist known for creating homoerotic fetish art. His works are noted for their extensive detail, elaborate fantasy settings, and for their juxtaposition of elements from Japanese, Balinese, Thai, Tibetan Buddhist, Afric ...

Namio Harukawa was a pseudonymous Japanese List of fetish artists, fetish artist best known for his works depicting Dominatrix, female domination ("femdom"). Common subjects and motifs of his art include erotic asphyxiation, facesitting, voluptuous women, and ...

Seiu Ito , also romanised as Seiyu Itoh (3 March 1882 in Tokyo – 28 January 1961 in Tokyo) was a Japanese painter, recognised today as "the father of modern kinbaku".

Eric Kroll Eric David Kroll (born October 23, 1946 in New York City) is a photojournalist, fetish photographer, erotica historian and book editor who has lived in New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. Work Eric Kroll's commercial work began in Taos, ...

Monica Majoli Monica Majoli (born 1963 in Los Angeles, California) is an American artist whose artwork examines the relationship between physicality and consciousness expressed through the documentary sexual image. Her work explores intimacy through sexuality, ...

* Michael Manning *

Robert Mapplethorpe Robert Michael Mapplethorpe (; November 4, 1946 – March 9, 1989) was an American photographer, best known for his black-and-white photographs. His work featured an array of subjects, including celebrity portraits, male and female nudes, self-p ...

Ken Marcus Ken Marcus (born October 2, 1946) is an American Photographer, best known for his glamour photography with ''Penthouse'' and ''Playboy'' magazines. For over 40 years he has produced hundreds of centerfolds, editorials, album covers, and advert ...

* Daido Moriyama *

Fakir Musafar Roland Loomis (August 10, 1930 – August 1, 2018), known professionally as Fakir Musafar, was an American performance artist considered to be one of the founders of the modern primitive movement. Life Born Roland Loomis, at age four he claim ...

Helmut Newton Helmut Newton (born Helmut Neustädter; 31 October 192023 January 2004) was a German-Australian photographer. The ''New York Times'' described him as a "prolific, widely imitated fashion photographer whose provocative, erotically charged black-a ...

* Barbara Nitke *

Satine Phoenix Satine Phoenix is an American comic book illustrator, cosplayer, model, and former pornographic film actress. She is the co-creator, with writer R.K. Syrus, of the graphic novel ''New Praetorians'' and the founder of CelebrityChariD20 (formerly ...

* Rex *

Sardax Sardax is the pseudonym for a London-based English fetish artist specialising in female domination fantasy art. He has been described as "the great master of the femdom/fetish cartoon world", "the doyen of femdom art", and "the master of femdom ar ...

Franco Saudelli Franco Saudelli (born 4 August 1952) is an Italian comics artist, mostly known for his erotic stories. Biography Franco Saudelli was born in Latina (Lazio), but moved soon to Rome. He made his debut in the comics world in the mid-1970s, firs ...

Bill Schmeling Bill Schmeling (died September 12, 2019), better known by his pen name The Hun, was an American artist, known for his explicit, homoerotic fetish illustrations and comics. Biography Bill Schmeling began producing erotic art in the 1960s, doing ...

Stjepan Sejic Stjepan is a Croatian masculine given name, variant of Stephen, used by ijekavian speakers. In Croatia, the name Stjepan was among the top ten most common masculine given names in the decades up to 1969. Notable people with the name include: * St ...

Joe Shuster Joseph Shuster (; July 10, 1914 – July 30, 1992), professionally known simply as Joe Shuster, was a Canadian-American comic book artist best known for co-creating the DC Comics character Superman, with Jerry Siegel, in ''Action Comics'' #1 (c ...

Eric Stanton Eric Stanton (September 30, 1926 – March 17, 1999; born Ernest Stanzoni Jr.) was an American underground cartoonist and fetish art pioneer. While Stanton began his career as a bondage fantasy artist for Irving Klaw, the majority of his later ...

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John Willie John Alexander Scott Coutts (9 December 1902 – 5 August 1962), better known by the pseudonym John Willie, was an artist, fetish photographer, editor and the publisher of the first 20 issues of the fetish magazine ''Bizarre'', featuring his ch ...

See also: '' List of BDSM photographers''

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