Flickr are cunts

Since I started this blog, I have been using Flickr to host the photos I post. And now, with no reason and no warning, they have deleted my account.

Bastards

Luther Gerlach

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Originally uploaded by opticaljaguar.

Luther Gerlach, nationally recognized photographer
specializing in 19th-century techniques, discusses the
methods of early traveling photographers in this class.
Gerlach will demonstrate picture making and development
using authentic cameras and procedures from the period.

Luther Gerlach Photography as seen on Unscathed Corpse

The Erotica Bibliophile

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Originally uploaded by opticaljaguar.

The Erotica Bibliophile is an ongoing and ever expanding research project I started back in 2003 when I first became obsessed with the history of European erotica and, quickly thereafter, the publishers and artists who were part of the clandestine world of "pornography" during the 19th and very early 20th centuries.

Many of the important erotica illustrators active during that period are represented here through their drawings as well as many detailed check-lists of publications that contain that artist's work; artists which include: Martin van Maele, Felicien Rops, Luc Lafnet, Louis Maltese, Paul Avril, etc.

If it's the publishers of clandestine erotica that you're interested in you will find extensive, annotated checklists and information in general on publishers such as Charles Carrington (Paul Ferdinando), William Dugdale and Jean Fort (Collection des Orties Blanches).

The Erotica Bibliophile as seen on Unscathed Corpse

Lui Nostalgia

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Originally uploaded by opticaljaguar.

Lui is a French adult magazine, first published in 1963 by Daniel Filipacchi.

This monthly was particularly successful from 1964 to the early eighties, featuring many B-List but also prominent French actresses, such as Brigitte Bardot, Mireille Darc or Marlène Jobert. Its motto was Lui, le magazine de l'homme moderne.

And someone is building an online collection of covers.

Nostalgic Lui as seen on ToucheSexy

Psyche Fine Art

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Originally uploaded by opticaljaguar.

Psyche Fine Art exhibits sepia-toned photographs of female nudes in an unusual and rather painterly style; it also offers them for sale as 14x11 inch prints on archival paper and (relatively inexpensively) as regular prints of smaller sizes.

Psyche Fine Art as seen on ToucheSexy

Mata Hari gallery

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Originally uploaded by opticaljaguar.

Mata Hari was the stage name of Margaretha Geertruida Zelle, an exotic dancer and courtesan who was executed by firing squad for alleged espionage during World War I.

Mata Hari Gallery

Wonder Woman!

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Originally uploaded by opticaljaguar.

For everyone who grew up in the 1970s, Lynda Carter is probably responsible for more raging hormones than many. And here's a gallery of 19 photos to remind us all why.

Lynda Carter Galleries as seen on ToucheSexy

The Notorious Bettie Page

If you haven't seen the film yet, you should. And here's the trailer.

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