Naked Steel

Gunter Blum loved powerful women. Women who like a challenge. And women who like to challenge. In spite of impossible odds, the lithe, improbably perfect bodies of his subjects seem to hold their own whether pitted against the vast chains, the gigantic cogs, of brutal machines or the inorganic symbols of the alien but strangely familiar environments in which these strong women play out their defiant fantasies.

"These women are not passive models... They are complicit in the act of voyeurism, actively inviting the viewer to look at them. Their stance, even their facial expression, is one of overt and agressive sexuality... They understand the strength of their own desire and how to use it. Their gaze is fully sexed."

Erotic Review Books has acquired the first and exclusive English-speaking rights to publish Blum's images, and in the first English publication of this remarkable photographer's compelling work, the reader is introduced to the fetishistic Amazons and defiant old-fashioned heroines that flesh out Blum's fantasies.

Since his death, Blum's own meticulously-composed photographic prints have been fetching prices of up to $30,000. Which makes the Blum Estate studio print, sold with our De Luxe edition, decidedly good value.