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Fetish art is art that depicts people in fetishistic situations such as bondage, BDSM, transvestism, transsexuality, domination/submission scenarios etc. -- sometimes in combination.

Many of the 'classic' 1940s, '50s & '60s era fetish artists such as Eric Stanton and Gene Bilbrew began their careers at Irving Klaw's Movie Star News company (later Nutrix) creating drawings for episodic illustrated bondage stories.

In the 1970s and 1980s, fetish artists like Robert Bishop were published extensively in bondage magazines.

Many artists working in the mainstream comic book industry have consistently included fetishistic imagery in their work, usually as a shock tactic or to denote villainy or corruption. However, the effect of depictions of beautiful women in fetish situations in tight fetish outfits on the sales of comics to the mostly teenage male comics-buying audience may also be a factor. (See Wonder Woman).

Mainstream fine artists such as Allen Jones have included strong fetish elements in their work.

The works of contemporary fetish artists such as Roberto Baldazzini and Michael Manning are published by art book companies like NBM and Taschen.

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Photography

A fetish photographer takes photographs of people in fetishistic situations, such as in bondage, or wearing rubber or leather clothing. More extreme fetish photography depicts paraphiliac acts such as urination, enemas, or SM activities. Depending on point of view, fetish photography can be considered as fine art, erotica, or pornography. Once only published in bondage magazines, fetish photography is now also published as "art books". Taschen is one prominent publisher printing fetish books on a mass scale. Bondage and fetish imagery has also made its way into mainstream pornographic magazines.

Pioneering fetish photographers include John Willie, who published a famous fetishistic magazine, "Bizarre" from 1946 to 1959. Another pioneer photographer includes art photographer Paul Outerbridge who introduced fetish elements into his color photographs as early as the 1940s.

Model

A fetish model is a model who models fetish clothing and/or devices that augment his or her body in a fetish manner or in fetishistic situations, though he or she may not specialise in that form of modeling.

Many fetish models display what are termed fetish fashions, which are clothing styles that considered extreme and provocative, designed to elicit a strong emotional reaction or desire on the part of the observer. Such clothing range from exotic stylized bathing suits to extreme costuming including body armor and sci-fi fantasy suits.

Fetish modeling may involve bondage, body modification, fetish photography and exotic glamour photography as well as sexual fantasy costuming (as popularized in Japanese manga productions and fantasy stories such as Dungeon and Dragons), which is usually referred to as cosplay. Fetish models may model for photography, and appear at BDSM fairs and parties.

Several pornographic actors and glamour models also act as fetish models.

Fetish magazines

A fetish magazine is a type of magazine originating in the late 1940s which is devoted to sexual fetishism. The content is generally aimed at being erotic rather than pornographic.

The most well-known early examples are Bizarre (1946-1959) published by John Willie and Leonard Burtman's Exotique, Masque, Connoisseur, Bizarre Life, High Heels, Unique World, and Corporal. Much of the content in fetish magazines (leather, rubber and latex clothing, cross-dressing, bondage, masochism, female domination, roleplaying, corporal punishment, etc.) is baffling to people who do not share the particular fetishes discussed and depicted.

An early study, The Undergrowth of Literature by Gillian Freeman (1967), concluded that such magazines provide a catharsis for those whose sexual needs are otherwise unsatisfied: she identified rubberwear magazines as the most popular at the time.

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