Elmer Batters: From the Tip of the Hose to the Tip of the Toes

by Elmer Batters

Worn dust jacket has some creasing to the edges. Shipped from the UK in recyclable card packaging.

Genres: Photography, Nonfiction, Art

211 pages, Hardcover

First published February 1, 1996

Reviews

[Tom Angelo · Rating 5 out of 5]

Elmer Batters is my Hero ! I'm a huge fan of the old school Pinup Photography, but Elmer was the Pioneer of Foot Photography. I'm sure he was the First Photographer ever to focus on the pretty feet of girls. Looking at his Art is like traveling back in a time machine. His models from the 1950's through 1970's are fabulous. It's astonishing to discover that when the authorities in some areas first discovered some of his models brazenly sticking their feet out toward his lens....he was arrested for obscenity ! His response was, “They said what I was doing with the stockinged feet was perverted.“I asked them what exactly was perverted about it and they couldn’t tell me. It only proves that feet are sexy, because if something about my foot photos hadn’t got to them they wouldn’t have come after me”. When they had a warrant out for his arrest in the 1960's, the hippies in the Haight Ashbury district of San Francisco took him in and hid him from the authorities....You gotta love that ! It makes a Great Coffee Table Book !

[Damyan Донгов · Rating 5 out of 5]

Brilliant, inspirational photography