Chas Ray Krider - Motel Fetish - 2002

Original edition. New York & Paris 2002, hardcover publisher's binding under illustrated dust jacket. Format in-4°, 30.8 x 23.5 cm, 2060, 279 pages.

Publisher's presentation: "Chas Ray Krider was the greatest erotic photographer in the world never to have been published." Eric Kroll Behind the opaque curtains of a motel room straight out of a 1950s American noir, lascivious creatures are offered to the voyeuristic and fetishistic gaze of Chas Ray Krider; in these ambiguous scenes, space is shaped by the halo of bedside lamps; the woman's lips are kiss-red, and her gaze is vacant. She carries her languor and mystery as a femme fatale dressed in red and black lingerie, perched high on her heels, surrendering to waiting while sipping bourbon or nonchalantly flipping through a magazine, cigarette in hand. An immobile, poisonous atmosphere emanates from these images, which seem to invite crime as much as ecstasy. Krider describes these photos as depicting "beautiful women like still lifes." It was another fetish master, Eric Kroll, who introduced Taschen to Chas Ray Krider. Fascinated by these women he discovered in Hustler's Leg World, Kroll wondered: "Who are these beautiful, languorous women waiting for? Me. You. They play the game of waiting wonderfully." Krider's lengthy interview by Kroll provides many insights into this universe that is both familiar and unique.