(I wasn’t spying, just cleaning.) I found them very arousing and they actually turned our sex life around as I began to emulate the wonderful things the girls wore. “I am a 46/f who ‘discovered’ some Elmer Batters mags among my husband’s personal effects about 20 years ago. Now we who love and enjoy what he loved and enjoyed can pass it on to the next group who will love and enjoy. He’s the man! What a gift he had and he passed it along to us. “Elmer is to stocking, leg and foot loving folks as Elvis is to rock and roll. A lot of his models were really quite plump, which is no bad thing.” He photographed some extremely beautiful women in very provocative poses, and they didn’t all conform to the 21st century ‘ideal’ woman ie painfully thin. “I don’t think that anyone else who was taking photos for the foot and leg/stocking fetish market in the ’50s to ’80s can touch him for the care and attention he took with the composition and lighting. But this is more than made up for by the rest of his work, which I think is technically superb. “The only problem I have with Elmer Batters is his endless fixation with nyloned, and indeed bare, feet (yes I know he was a foot fetishist – I like nyloned feet as much as anyone but not to the point of obsession, which it clearly was with Batters). Does anyone here know whether it has been published (it was scheduled for 1998, I think)? One volume was to feature early black and white photos and the second, the later colour work.” “In that book they mention the release of a pair of limited-edition monographs featuring further Batters photography. “The same goes for volume two, which is a far bigger and better (not to mention more expensive) work, ‘ Legs That Dance to Elmer’s Tune‘, complete with velour jacket and encased with a tan-colour stocking! It only took a moment for me to decide to buy it, and I am not one for impulse purchases, normally. I had a day off work and wandered into my local branch of Dillons, saw a hardcover book with an attractive lady in FFs and had a look inside. “I must admit, that my mind was well and truly boggled when I saw the first Taschen book ‘ From the Tip of the Toes to the Top of the Hose‘ back in 1996. IMHO his photography is required reading for anyone with any pretensions to being a stocking fan, and especially fans of fully fashioned nylons. His photography was the subject of TASCHEN’s Fetish Girls and Beauty Parade.“Sorry for bringing this subject up if it has already been discussed to death, but I presume that most, if not all, contributors to this forum are familiar with the work of Elmer Batters. "A perfect stocking filler for all those men who love, well, perfectly-filled stockings.",Įric Kroll edited several titles for TASCHEN including Natacha Merritt’s Digital Diaries and The Wonderful World of Bill Ward. Wolfgang Tillmans talking in Arena Homme +, London “ are really great because all of the pictures follow one interest, one purpose which is feet, so it really is like form follows function.”, The edition’s special Panic Cover is reversible to a realistic-looking academic book to keep the real contents hidden from your annoying boss or even help you impress an attractive onlooker! This book pays homage to Batters’s great obsession with legs, feet, and toes. He chose his models with these criteria in mind―and with the obsessiveness of a Zen artist spent his lifetime looking for the perfect leg.īatters started out publishing his photos himself, but from the late ’60s onwards the field was his, and he was the star house photographer of magazines such as Leg-O-Rama, Nylon Doubletake,and Black Silk Stockings, to name but a few. While others preferred the thrill of an inviting cleavage, the maestro’s eye was on lower things―trim calves, the arch of a foot, the well-made lines of toes and heels. Elmer Batters (1919–1997) was the grand master of leg and foot art.
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