50 Shades Of Class

Helmut Newton The Pearl Necklace, Hotel Bel Air, 2002 Galerie Hans Mayer
Helmut Newton The Pearl Necklace, Hotel Bel Air, 2002 Galerie Hans Mayer
Nobuyoshi Araki The Look, 1993 IFAC Arts
Nobuyoshi Araki
The Look, 1993
IFAC Arts

Georges Bataille, The Story of the Eye (1928)

A novella depicting teenage lovers and their perverse sexual predilections, Bataille’s story involves madness, exhibitionism, bullfighting, suicide, the strangulation of a priest, eggs, an eyeball, and more. The rapid cascade of disturbing events feels surrealistic and wholly divorced from any code of ethics.

A Young Priest Kneeling National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
A Young Priest Kneeling
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Alfred Stieglitz Georgia O'Keeffe--Hands and Thimble, 1919 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)
Alfred Stieglitz
Georgia O’Keeffe–Hands and Thimble, 1919
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)
Kohei Yoshiyuki Untitled (Plate 36), 1971 Yossi Milo Gallery
Kohei Yoshiyuki
Untitled (Plate 36), 1971
Yossi Milo Gallery
Felix R. Cid Bullfight (Madrid), 2012 VICTORI+MO CONTEMPORARY
Felix R. Cid
Bullfight (Madrid), 2012
VICTORI+MO CONTEMPORARY
Milagros de la Torre From the series THE LOST STEPS, Belts used by psychologist Mario Poggi to strangle a rapist during police interrogation, 1996 Rolf Art
Milagros de la Torre
From the series THE LOST STEPS, Belts used by psychologist Mario Poggi to strangle a rapist during police interrogation, 1996
Rolf Art