(FETISH) Amateur album with 54 surreal photographs of an (ap

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Amateur album with 54 surreal photographs of an (apparently) German male cross-dresser, who is posing in a dungeon-like setting in his living room. The unidentified figure appears in an extraordinary range of fetish and bondage outfits that include stiletto-heeled boots, fish-net undies, leather corsets, gloves and full length gowns, exposed nipple garments, prosthetic breasts, and black masks, as well as a plethora of whips and mirrors; several images of freestanding torture devices, to which the subject's hands and feet are tied and his genitalia secured, conclude the series. Ferrotyped silver prints, mounted two per page (recto/verso), 5x3 1/2 inches (12.7x8.9 cm.). Oblong 4to, gray leatherette with gilt decoration; ties. 1960s

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A frank look at one's man auto-erotic predilection, in which a dark exploration of sado-masochism and transvestism is graphically rendered for the camera. The opening image, which depicts a demure blonde 'fraulein' (unmasked), in a frou frou tutu, is juxtaposed next to images of the same subject transformed into a black leather bogeywoman. The visual narrative becomes more complex as the subject poses in an increasingly bizarre range of scary costumes. In the final images, he appears partially undressed (though still wearing a mask), as he is bound to a handmade torture device.