A celebration of the human body and spirit in more than 100 photographs - all nude, all taken at night. These photographs illustrate the hard work and the dedication it takes to succeed in dancing, acting, photography - or really any creative endeavour that at first may be incredibly frightening or make you feel vulnerable, but once achieved offers an exhilaration previously unimagined. The photos were shot over 200 nights, with 300 different dancers, in more than 400 locations, in all kinds of weather. The photos are grouped by theme - Vulnerability, Ferocity, Stability, Ecstasy - and include shots from sunset to dawn, in spectacular black and white and glorious colour. Many will be accompanied by an inspiring quote. Additional text will include Jordan's introductory essay, describing how he came up with the book idea and how he is inspired by the dancers he photographs, as well as "Behind the Scenes" stories of how the shot was achieved and "In Their Shoes" - words from the dancers on what it was like to be photographed in nude in public.

The first Yale French Studies issue on photography, examining French photography's place in art, identity, and society through a lens of diversity and interdisciplinary investigation In its first issue on photography, this volume of Yale French Studies presents multiple avenues of interdisciplinary investigation designed to intersect and open up new areas of inquiry in the twenty-first century. These intersections push beyond traditional geographic and gender boundaries, exploring women's photography, new cultural contexts, trans orientalism, and minority and marginalized bodies. As they do so, they ask us to reconsider the way that we conceive of photography's place in the past and in our lives today.

In A Third Look, Joseph Maida reflects on Lee Friedlander's nudes from the 1970's and 80's, reinterpreting this series as a cutting edge homage both to Friedlander, the modernist titan of photography, and to LGBTQIA+ bodies across gender and identity spectra. When curator John Szarkowski first presented Friedlander's nudes in a solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in 1991, he wrote that "the qualities of generosity and openness, and the habit of continual exploration-of logical extemporization enlivened by an unassuming audacity" make Friedlander's nudes so "richly and rewardingly complex." Maida, viewing the traits of openness, exploration, extemporization, and audacity as queerness itself, reimagined Friedlander's nudes by picturing different bodies in A Third Look to converse with Friedlander's. Maida calls their feminist reclamation of history "a visual queering of modernist photography, providing a visible reconciliation of where the canon of art photography has historically allowed us to see" with the broader spectrum of the human nude.

On one side, Dita Von Teese shares the beauty of the burlesque world, with bubblegum dreams and show tunes to strip to. Flip over for fantasies in fetish with dramatic costumes and the allure of submission. Burlesque and the Art of the Teese "I advocate glamour. Every day. Every minute." I'm a good dancer and a nice girl, but I'm a great showgirl. I sell, in a word, magic. Burlesque is a world of illusion and dreams and of course, the striptease. Whether I am bathing in my martini glass, riding my sparkling carousel horse, or emerging from my giant gold powder compact, I live out my most glamorous fantasies by bringing nostalgic imagery to life. Let me show you my world of gorgeous pin-ups, tantalizing stripteases, and femmes fatales. I'll give you a glimpse into my life, but a lady never reveals all. Fetish and the Art of the Teese You may have come for the fetish. Or you may just be sneaking a peek at this mysterious and peculiar other side. No matter what you've come for, there is something for you to indulge in. My world of fetish may not be the one that you would expect. As a burlesque performer, I entice my audience, bringing their minds closer and closer to sex and then -- as good temptress must -- snatching it away. As a fetish star, I apply the same techniques...An opera-length kid leather glove, a strict wasp waist, an impossibly high patent leather heel, a severely painted red lip...Come with me into my world of decadent fetishism.

This intimate and elegant hardcover art book features contemporary oil paintings of explicit, celebratory, whimsical and intense sexual subject matter by Laura BenAmots. The raw private images are both tantalizing and surprising. The work is non-exploitative mature and playful. Clearly these paintings reflect a fearless celebration of the physical. Eros On Canvas has a clean calm design that creates a type of purity or visual "white noise" in which to view the unambiguous representations float. The title sheet is followed by a table of contents, words (artist's bio and interview), forward by Noel Black and an introduction. The paintings are separated into 3 groups: first is a brief introduction with an eclectic sampling of other artworks by Laura BenAmots concluding with three paintings titled the muses from the portrait series of beautiful men that led to Eros On Canvas; next is a chapter titled Through The Peep Hole comprised of nine miniature images of up-close-and-personal body parts; finally, the body of the book is titled Catching Breath and features a full range of medium and large scale flesh-toned canvases rendering highly private sexual interludes. The book concludes with 2 facsimiles of hand written and typed erotic poems by the painter.

This title is savage, relentless, cunning, and awe-inspiring. Throughout time, there have never been figures more admired or feared as the female fighters. Forced by fortune or foreign invader to give up the gentler role as sister, daughter, mother or lover and take up the sword to protect that which she holds most dear - her land, her people, her freedom! To this noble pantheon of women warriors, these daughters of bloody revolution, this sisterhood of steel, we offer up a gallery of glorious tribute in "Sword Song"! This title features a full colour showcase of paintings and illustrations that celebrate supple curves coupled with sharpened weapons to produce a force no man or army can hope to withstand! An equally awesome band of artists paint powerful portraits, and include the work of Daniel Horne, James Hottinger, Steve Fastner & Rich Larson, Blas Gallego, David Dunstan, to name just a few.

This collection of over 250 contemporary retro-style cheesecake, glamour, and hot rod pinup photographs by Northern California artist Marilee Caruso takes women from all backgrounds and transforms them into the classy yet stimulating bombshells of our parents' and grandparents' day. Inspired by icons such as Marilyn Monroe, Bettie Page, or Sophia Loren, each portrait provides a nostalgic glance into the mood, style, and sex appeal of the 1930s, '40s, '50s, and '60s era pin-up girl. From black and white Hollywood starlets to greasy hot rod honeys, this bevy of gorgeous gals has been revamped with vintage hair and makeup, wardrobe, and posing. Shot with high-quality digital technology of the 21st century, each image is reminiscent of the drawings of Gil Elvgrin and Alberto Vargas.

You are probably thinking Rod Berry, who is that? Yes, you are right, it is a pseudonym; we cant publish his real name. Rod Berry mainly lives in eastern Germany and has been doing erotic photography for several years. Rod likes to experiment, and strives to capture the perfect blend of voyeurism and exhibitionism. His work stimulates the imaginations of model, photographer and viewer in all sorts of different ways, because the biggest erogenous zone of all is the one inside our heads.