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Orientalia: Sex In Asia
photos by Reagan Louie
Every day, thousands of young Asian women go to work in the
sex industry, a marketplace where any desire can be satisfied for a price -
despite the fact that many Asian countries are repressive to the point of
banning certain standard sexual practices. For six years, Asian-American
photographer Reagan Louie journeyed through this sexual underworld, visiting
nearly a dozen countries including Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, the Philippines,
Vietnam, Tibet, Thailand, and Japan, among others, photographing the day-to-day
lives of women who, either by choice or by necessity, exchange their bodies for
money. Louie's travels through this underground
subculture expose a world where the mythical archetypes of female Asian
sexuality - from the submissive Madame Butterfly to the dominating Dragon Lady -
are maintained. The women depicted here are at times seductive and playful,
entertaining their clients with sex, massages, or simple companionship; but they
can also be desperately sad or indifferent as they finish with one client and
pass hours before their next encounter. At once alluring and unsettling,
intimate and acute, Orientalia also features Louie's narrative of his journeys,
revealing the context in which these photographs were shot, and providing
further insight into this exotic, sometimes erotic, and far from quixotic
industry
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Shino
photos by Nobuyoshi Araki
Nobuyoshi Araki is an internationally acclaimed photographer
whose erotically charged work has put him at the forefront of contemporary
Japanese photography. This volume is dedicated to images of Araki's favorite
model, Shino, and presents her in Araki's classic style. She appears clothed and
unclothed, bound by ropes, in the bath, indoors and out, all with his signature
cinematic touch. Featuring over 70 images in both color and black and white,
"Shino" is sure to appeal to Araki's legion of fans.
Araki: Tokyo Lucky Hole
by Nobuyoshi Araki (Photographer)
Nobuyoshi Araki is the most controversial photographer working in
the world today. To his critics, he is no more than a pornographer and a
misogynist; to his supporters he is a radical and a revolutionary, a figure who
has challenged not just artistic limits, but social limits in post-war Japan. At
home, he is a national celebrity. In the West he is considerably less
understood. This is the book that will explain Araki. In its sheer range of text
and images, it is also the most comprehensive volume ever to be published on his
life's work.
Tokyo Sex Underground
photos by Romain Slocombe
Photographer Romain Slocombe provides a fascinating glimpse of Japanese erotic culture through this stunning collection of provocative, yet poignant, images. Bondage models, porn actresses, prostitutes and party girls are photographed both at work and play within the sex clubs, hostess bars, fetish parties and porno factories that make up Tokyo's thriving sex industry.
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