Lustre (Hardcover)

Gerard Musy's Lustre: Fetish Nights is an unprecedented vision of the intimate, nocturnal world of fetish -- a new, elegant, and refined vision in black and white. Musy's photographs hint at hidden truths and reveal mysterious, dark scenes and intimate close-ups, often no more than fleeting, fragmentary glimpses of erotic encounters, giving wing to the viewer's imagination. A long, sleek leg sheathed in black silk stockings; a cinched and corseted waist, tightly laced; the lustery sheen of latex on velvety skin; a slender, extended foot bound in a stiletto heel. . . . Musy's images reflect the intimate perceptions of the photographer who is not a mere detached observer but actually part of the scene -- and in some cases part of the photograph itself. No fetish photographer has ever dared approach his subject so intimately all while preserving the aura of mystery as seductively as Gerard Musy.