Sirens

Siren n

1. 1 a woman whose singing lured unwary sailors on to rocks
2. 2 a sweet singer
3. 3 a dangerously fascinating woman
4. 4 a temptress.

Odysseus made his crew stop their ears with wax and lash him to the mast so that he alone could hear the Sirens' song as he passed by their island. John DuPret makes no such demands of the reader in presenting his first book of the beautiful women he has photographed, but the effect is equally entrancing.

With a background in fine art and design, DuPret always creates the perfect ambience for his models, taking enormous trouble in their selection and finding the right costumes; he often makes his own sets and props. As the owner of one of the world's most important collections of pre-1930s fetish photography (the ER Books publication Dark Sex was drawn from this collection) DuPret has an encyclopaedic knowledge of the subject, giving his vision a depth and awareness that few others have.

• John DuPret's friendships with Irina Ionesco and China Hamilton, two photographers whose work he greatly admires, have proved to be valuable influences on his own work.
• DuPret creates perverse imagery with the decadent feel of fetish photography from the 1920s and 30s.
• A superb collection of images from a quiet master of the genre, published for the very first time.
• Lovers of BDSM will recognise that another huge talent has arrived in the field.
• Contains B&D images that are definitely not for the faint-hearted ? please be warned.

The Publishers and John DuPret wish to make it clear that the adult female subjects depicted in the photographs in SIRENS are involved in mutually consensual acts of a personally erotic, sexual and fantasy nature. It must be stressed that it is not the intention of the Publishers or the Photographer to convey any suggestion of real exploitation or abuse of women, something that both deplore.