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Review by Sensuous Sadie
SensuousSadie@aol.com
www.sensuoussadie.com
There’s a photo of fetish photographer Barbara Nitke that particularly
fascinates me. She stares out at me with a slightly fanatical glint in
her eye, a glint that reflects of the tart beauty of her art. Her fetish
photography is not the pseudo porn slop littered across the internet. No
girls gazing up and pleading, “please rescue me.” No perfectly
formed breasts glowing with perfect lighting. No close-ups of giant
penises, milk spurting out like
Old Faithful. Nor is her photography the kind of photos that I have so often done of
myself – portraits designed to make me look glamorous and sexy, but
mostly devoid of real BDSM content.
Instead we see the very real players of the New York City BDSM scene.
Real women and men, big and small, thin and fat, dressed in glamour and
dressed in nothing. All of them expressing the mystique that happens
between two people exploring BDSM together. The agony of a hard
whipping, the tenderness of aftercare, the laughter after an odd moment.
Barbara’s photos are far more than beautiful lighting and glowing body
parts. Instead she captures the intimacy, mystery, and darkness of our
world.
Kiss of Fire is a beautiful
coffee table book with over 60 stunning photographs published on a
glossy paper stock. Each photograph is notated, sharing the secrets
behind each story. At the end of the book, I felt as if she had invited
me into this secret world, peering around her and her camera into these
beautiful scenes for a glimpse of something elusive. I found this book a
wonderful way to share BDSM with a friend, not the practical
how-to-tie-them-up stuff, but the intangible mystery that makes our
explorations truly unique.
ABOUT BARBARA NITKE
Barbara Nitke is a well-known
fetish photographer living in the
New York City
area. Her photographs are posted on her website as well as in the
collection of The
Finnish
Museum
of Photography, the Leather
Archives and Museum in
Chicago
,
and in numerous private
collections in the
US
and abroad. She has been a
featured artist at many S/M conventions across the country. She is a
member of The Eulenspeigel Society (the oldest S/M support and
educational group in the country) and also of the Lesbian Sex Mafia, a
women-only group based in
New York
.
She has also received a
President's Choice Award for community service by Pantheon of Leather.
Barbara is on the faculty of the School of Visual Arts in New York, and
is the president of the Camera Club of New York, which was founded by
Alfred Steiglitz in 1884.
Read the SCENEprofiles Interview with Barbara Nitke at:
http://sensuoussadie.com/barbaranitkeinterview.htm
See Samples of Barbara's Photography
Barbara’s Website
www.barbaranitke.com
Barbara’s E-mail Address
barbara@barbaranitke.com
Barbara Nitke
Copyright 2003 Sadie Sez Publications
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