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Title: Kiss of Fire by Barbara Nitke, A.D. Coleman ISBN: 3-933257-94-8 Publisher: Kehrer Verlag Pub. Date: 15 June, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Capturing the intimacy
Comment: Barbara Nitke has done her homework. She has spent countless hours with the BDSM community gathering these images. She has grown to understand the intimacy in these connections and captures them in her pictures. I was amazed at how well she caught moments that are usually so fleeting. Definitely a book for anyone wondering why people do this stuff.
Rating: 5
Summary: A beautiful portrayal of different loving
Comment: This book blew me away.
I am a kinky woman who does not normally enjoy visual erotica. Mostly I find it cliched, sexist, disturbing, or some combination of the three. When I received this book as a present, I thought, "Oh, well, maybe my partner will like it." But, paging through it, I was delighted and moved by what I found. This is unlike any other book of visual erotica that I've ever encountered.
These are candid images - real pictures of what the BDSM scene looks like on the inside. She shows people of different body types and levels of conventional attractiveness engaged in a wide variety of BDSM activities. The compositions are excellent. And, as only a few photographers are skilled enough to do, Nitke captures the moments when her subjects have their souls in their eyes.
This book is a must-have for any kinky person! I was moved almost to tears. "Finally, someone who gets it!" was the foremost thought in my head, and it will be in yours, too.
I believe that if mainstream folks see these images, it could cause a real change in how our lifestyle is perceived. The passion, love, and joy that we bring to our scenes is often not obvious to outsiders and casual observers, but she makes it plain for all to see. Simply amazing.
Bravo, Nitke - I'll be looking forward eagerly to your next offering.
Rating: 5
Summary: KISS OF FIRE - Scorching Beauty
Comment: Barbara Nitke's long awaited book KISS OF FIRE (Kehrer Verlag, Germany 2003) is finally here and it is a scorcher. Nitke, a fine art photographer of the SM experience depicts her controversial subject matter with sensitivity, wit, and utter seriousness. It's neither porn nor fetish fashion, but the genuine human experience of SM as a living breathing, reality. Her camera peers into the seldom seen hidden lives and loves of her subjects participating vicariously, and viscerally. Her work documents a wide variety of SM activities: floggings, spankings, ponyplay, crossdressing, fisting, piercing, fireplay...as broad a spectrum as human diversity itself. When working, she provides no direction or choreography on her shoots; she watches the scene as it unfolds and captures the pivotal moments on the fly. It is never posed or choreographed. As journalism it is as close to the real sadoerotic experience as you can get without witnessing an SM scene yourself. Her deliberate use of a hard dark border burned around the imagery of her prints creates a sort of keyhole effect, inviting us to share her voyeurism, peeking into private encounters, into hidden worlds.
But Nitke is no mere photojournalist. She aims for the *feeling* of SM, capturing beautifully the trancelike languor, the moments of catharsis, of utter connectedness, of blinding sensation, that can occur in SM at its best, where time seems to stretch and spirit energies feel as palpable as heat. She shoots with long exposures that leave ghostly trails and uses unusual infrared films that make skin tones glimmer with an ethereal light. Some of her figures feel more like energy clouds than blocks of solid mass. Her viewfinder tends to go where the rapture is, often seeking out the faces of the submissive partners, sometimes letting the dominants become large anonymous forces of nature. Echoes of religious art are sprinkled throughout: a beautiful dominatrix cradling the blindfolded head of her lover - a fetishized pieta; A male submissive being caned and soaring, tattooed angel wings spreading across his back; Jim Mitchell, master flogger, as a younger, hotter Merlin, his flogger tresses spreading like a energy waves flowing from a magic staff; Bernadette W in rapturous surrender, A contemporary St Thersa in ecstasy. There is even what appears to be a penitent kneeling before a priest (actually a moment of reflection before a shoe shine).
This blend of raw documentary subject matter and surreal rendering fuses into an unusual style that is both naturalistic and otherworldly. For folks involved in, curious about, or intrigued by the SM lifestyle, I give "Kiss of Fire" my highest rating. For those who simply love any art with an edge, Nitke is amassing a body of work that ranks with the most powerful passionate contemporary art being made today. You don't need to be kinky to be swept away by Ms. Nitke's visionary spell.
"Kiss of Fire" contains 70 beautiful duotones and two essays: one by Nitke, and one by esteemed photography critic A.D. Coleman. It also includes a lovely frame by frame commentary by the artist herself, providing - in miniature - the fascinating, intimate, often hilarious slide show, Nitke has been presenting in art forums for years. "Kiss of Fire" is the steamy, provocative, alluring coffee-table-book-to-end-all-coffee table-books. May it send you somewhere sublime.
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Title: Doris Kloster's Demimonde: A Visual Exploration of Fetish by Doris Kloster ISBN: 1560254068 Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press Pub. Date: December, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: Breaking the Girl by Kim Corum ISBN: 1932420053 Publisher: New Traditions Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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