The Mammoth Book of Illustrated Erotica

by Marilyn Jaye Lewis, Marilyn Jaye Lewis, Robert Mapplethorpe (photographer)

As artful as it is exciting, as tasteful as it is daring, this up-market illustrated Mammoth volume offers a massive gallery of stunning images by eighty photographers who have set the trends in nude photography and made a mark with their erotica in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Europe. Among the photographers included by the editors of this piquant and varied collection stand Robert Mapplethorpe, Helmut Newton, Wolfgang Eichler, Bob Carlos Clarke, Mario Testino, Wolfgang Tilmans, Roy Stuart, Trevor Watson, Michele Serchuk, Trevor Baker, Pascal Baetens, and Eric Kroll. All the photographers in the volume are generously represented by six pages of images that showcase their particular talent to best advantage in highly nuanced, top-quality black-and-white reproductions. Accompanying the presentation of each set of images, meticulously chosen for their aesthetic as well as their erotic appeal, are brief biographical vignettes of the photographers themselves that together provide a survey of developments and experiments that have advanced the artistry of contemporary erotic photography.

Genres: Erotica, Art, Photography, Sexuality, Anthologies, Nonfiction

512 pages, Paperback

First published December 19, 2001

About the author

Marilyn Jaye Lewis is the author of the award-winning book Neptune & Surf and the co-editor of the international best-selling erotic art book, Mammoth Book of Erotic Photography.

She has received many citations and awards for her erotic fiction, including finalist in the William Faulkner Writing Competition and winner in the New Century Writers Awards for her novel Curse of our Profound Disorder.

Her short stories and novellas have been published worldwide and translated into French, Italian, and Japanese.

Lust: Bisexual Erotica represents her erotic short stories from 1997-2003. And the forthcoming Ribbon of Darkness is her collected works of short erotic fiction from 1996 - 2007. Anthologies she has edited include Hot Women’s Erotica, That’s Amore!, Stirring Up A Storm, Zowie! It's Yaoi! and Entangled Lives.

Her popular erotic romance novels include When Hearts Collide and When the Night Stood Still.

Upcoming novels: Freak Parade, A Killing On Mercy Road, We’re Still All That, and Twilight of the Immortal.

Reviews

[Peter · Rating 4 out of 5]

If you want some distraction from reading all kind of fiction (and who doesn't) I can highly recommend this huge volume of erotic photos by acclaimed masters. You will see all kind of women in different poses on black and white pictures. Liked the dark atmosphere (somehow I had to think about the movie Lost Highway) in the pictures and the motifs chosen. Really recommended book with a great cover and many eye catchers inside. You'll also get some information on the artists.

[Steve Kemp · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wonderful collection of photography. What could be more beautiful than the female form? Nothing at all!