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ERIC\'S VIEWS: \"I WANT TO RECORD SOMETHING INTAMATE, SOMETHING CONSIDERED OUTSIDE THE ACCEPTABLE NORM OF \"PROPER\" PHOTOGRAPHY. I FEEL I CAN PHOTOGRAPH ANY EXPLICIT SCENE AND DO IT WITH INTEGRITY.\"
ERIC\'S BOOK \"FETISH GIRLS\" PUBLISHED IN 1994 BY TACHEN SOLD OVER 250,000 COPIES.

Eric David Kroll(born October 23, 1946) is an American photojournalist,fetishphotographer, erotica historian, and book editor.

Work

Eric Kroll\'s commercial work began inTaos, New Mexicoin 1969, when he partnered with friend Sam Bruskin to open a gallery. He worked as a photo journalist in New York from 1971 to 1994.

Kroll worked and lived in many worlds at once; fashion, music, and the art and film scenes.[During the 70s and 80s he photographed every day scenes from his personal life, photographed celebrities, fashion and the New York social scene for Elle Magazine, Vogue, The New York Times and Der Spiegel. He photographed personalities and artists such asMadonna,Andy Warhol,Keith Haring, and Korean video artistNam June Paik. In 1976 he published \"Sex Objects,\" with a grant from the New York State Council of the Arts grant, a book documenting sex workers across America.In the early 1980s he turned away from portrait photography with a series title \"Fetish Girls\" (1994), which remains one of the best selling books in the publisher Taschen\'s history.Kroll worked with Benedikt Taschen from 1993 to 2007 as photo editor and erotica historian.

Eric Kroll has published collections (\"Fetish Girls\" and \"Beauty Parade\"), composed introductions for influential works such as the compiled two-volume \"Bizarre\" collection and someTaschenfolios.Many of Kroll\'s photographs refer to and pay homage to his predecessors,Eric StantonandJohn Willie, as well the art ofMan Ray, andMarcel Duchamp.

Kroll also curated exhibitions including \"Warhol: FromDylanto Duchamp,\" an exhibition of photographs documenting Warhol\'s factory era. Photographers includedAnnie Leibovitz,Robert Mapplethorpe,Helmut Newton,Cecil Beaton, actorDennis Hopper, and others. The Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh loaned Firestone Gallery Andy Warhol\'s \"Screen Tests\" of both Bob Dylan and Marcel Duchamp for the show.

Books by Eric Kroll

• “Sex Objects”, Addison House, 1977.
• \"Fetish Girls\", Taschen, 1994.
• \"Beauty Parade\", Taschen, 1997.
• \"The Transformations of Gwen\", NBM Publishing, 2000.
• \"The Transformations of Gwen, Volume 2\", NBM Publishing, 2001.
• \"Warhol: Dylan to Duchamp\", Eric Firestone, 2010.
• \"THE NEW YORK YEARS 1971 to 1994\", Timeless Edition, France 2022

Books edited by Eric Kroll

• \"The Art of Eric Stanton\", a volume dedicated to the artwork ofEric Stanton, Taschen, 1996.
• \"The Wonderful World of Bill Ward, King of the Glamour Girls\", Taschen, 2003.
• \"The New Erotic Photography\", Taschen, 2007. Co-edited with Dian Hanson.

Collections

• USC Fisher Museum of Art
• Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C
• World Erotic Art Museum
• Greer LanktonArchives Museum
• Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA

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