Eric Kroll Explained

Eric Kroll
Birth Name:Eric David Kroll
Birth Date:23 October 1946
Birth Place:New York City, U.S.
Field:Photography

Eric David Kroll (born October 23, 1946) is an American photojournalist,[1] fetish photographer, erotica historian, and book editor.[2] [3]

Work

Eric Kroll's commercial work began in Taos, New Mexico in 1969, when he partnered with friend Sam Bruskin to open a gallery. He worked as a photo journalist in New York from 1971 to 1994.[4]

Kroll worked and lived in many worlds at once; fashion, music, and the art and film scenes.[5] During the 70s and 80s he photographed every day scenes from his personal life, photographed celebrities, fashion and the New York social scene for Elle Magazine, Vogue, The New York Times and Der Spiegel. He photographed personalities and artists such as Madonna, Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, and Korean video artist Nam June Paik. In 1976 he published "Sex Objects," with a grant from the New York State Council of the Arts grant, a book documenting sex workers across America.[6] Artist Richard Prince appropriated an image from the iconic book "Sex Objects" in one of his works that sold for around $2 million.[7]

In the early 1980s he turned away from portrait photography with a series title "Fetish Girls" (1994), which remains one of the best selling books in the publisher Taschen's history.[8] Kroll worked with Benedikt Taschen from 1993 to 2007 as photo editor and erotica historian.

Eric Kroll has published collections ("Fetish Girls" and "Beauty Parade"), composed introductions for influential works such as the compiled two-volume "Bizarre" collection and some Taschen folios.[9] Many of Kroll's photographs refer to and pay homage to his predecessors Weegee and Bunny Yeager[10] as well as Eric Stanton and John Willie. Kroll's photographs are grounded in the conceptual influences of Man Ray, and Marcel Duchamp.[6]

Kroll also curated exhibitions including "Warhol: From Dylan to Duchamp," an exhibition of photographs documenting Warhol's factory era. Photographers included Annie Leibovitz, Robert Mapplethorpe, Helmut Newton, Cecil Beaton, actor Dennis Hopper, and others. The Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh loaned Firestone Gallery Andy Warhol's "Screen Tests" of both Bob Dylan and Marcel Duchamp for the show.[11]

Books by Eric Kroll

Books edited by Eric Kroll

Collections

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Les visages du downtown New York ravivés dans une surprenante monographie d'Eric Kroll. Azoury. Phillippe Azoury. August 3, 2022. Les Inrockuptibles.
  2. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/11/24/DDGFC38CB21.DTL Bound for glory? Kroll knows his work's explicit, so please don't call it porn
  3. Book: Eric Kroll's Fetish Girls. 1994. Taschen GmbH. 9783822889169. First .
  4. Web site: Video . https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/Lc8FMEPKsQg . 2021-12-21 . live. www.youtube.com . 2020-12-11.
  5. Web site: Timeless Ed. : Eric Kroll : The New York Years 1971-1994. Jacques. Jean. August 16, 2022. The Eye of Photography.
  6. Web site: Bound for glory? Kroll knows his work's explicit, so please don't call it porn. Jesse. Hamlin. November 24, 2003. SFGATE.
  7. Web site: Kinky Machine: The rise, life and women of photographer Eric Kroll. Smith. Brian. Tucson Weekly.
  8. Web site: Eric Kroll.
  9. http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/artsandentertainment/story/0,6000,587153,00.html A passion for Taschen
  10. Web site: Kinky Machine: The rise, life and women of photographer Eric Kroll. Smith. Brian. Tucson Weekly.
  11. Web site: Eric Firestone Gallery salutes Warhol era | Warholia. TucsonSentinel.com.
  12. Web site: Soozie in New Mexico - Eric David Kroll (American, b. 1946). Google Arts & Culture.
  13. Web site: About Nam June Paik | Smithsonian American Art Museum. americanart.si.edu.
  14. Web site: Eric Kroll's "Fantasies of Fetish" Kinks Out the World Erotic Art Museum (NSFW). Ily. Goyanes. April 9, 2013. Miami New Times.
  15. Web site: Lia Gangitano discusses the first New York retrospective of Greer Lankton. www.artforum.com. October 31, 2014 .

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