Filed under: Fetish & Art, Fetish & Erotica, News | Tags: Allen Jones, Bob Carlos Clarke, Fetish & Art, Fetish Photography, Helmut Newton, London Fetish Scene, The Commander, The Dark Summer
I was over in London recently, went through my storage, and brought back a couple of limited edition framed fetish-erotic prints, signed by photographer Bob Carlos Clarke.
Bob Carlos Clarke 1950-2006
I remember buying them in a Fulham gallery sometime in 1985, after some lengthy bargaining with the dealer. They’re from a series Carlos Clarke called “The Dark Summer” – part of a collection he published that year in one of those big coffee-table books that few of us can afford.
The prints have good frames and I had space on my walls – so I hung them up, and everyone who comes by my office admires them, especially women. It was a shock then, on doing a quick google search for recent news on the photographer, to learn that Bob Carlos Clarke had struggled with clinical depression and had committed suicide by train in 2006.
Filed under: Fetish & Art | Tags: Allen Jones, Aubrey Beardsley, Fetish & Art, Fetish Culture, Fetish History, Fetish Photography, Helmut Newton
London was a very interesting Fetish centre back in the late 70’s and most of the way though the 80’s as Fetish gradually moved out of the closet into pop culture. I haven’t been back in a long time, but I suspect the ‘mainstreaming’ of Fetish has made the real Fetish scene lose its cool vibe, and it’s now harder to find authentic interpretations of Fetish that haven’t been diluted by the “mainstreaming”.
