“His models often had substantial thighs (an advantage for me!) and often the reinforced top of the stockings created a little ‘bulge’ just above that my hubby loved to kiss!” Yes, I know Batters often had girls without shoes, but if you recall he almost always had them standing up on their tippy toes, creating almost the same effect as heels. (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. ![]() Curated by Dian Hanson and Benedikt Taschen, Bizarre Life – The Art of Elmer Batters & Eric Stanton brings these artists together for the first time, creating a forum to explore the origins of our current sexual autonomy while raising questions of power and dominance, sexual freedom and sexual repression, and examines their far reaching effects on contemporary art.“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. ![]() Following his discharge he married his first leg model, settled in Rancho Palas Verdes, and made a career photographing women with an emphasis on legs and feet.įeaturing over 200 original works, an exhibition at Taschen Gallery in LA, showcases the work of Batters together with Eric Stanton. Elmer Batters (1919 – 1997) served aboard a submarine in World War II where he became aware that his sexual tastes were different from his shipmates. “I felt that people almost saw me as un-American for not mooning over large mammaries,” he said. Elmer Batters was dubbed the Dean of Leg Art for his unique approach to photographing women’s legs and feet, but while his work brought solace to legions of foot fetishists, the courts called it dangerously perverse and hounded him his whole life.
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