Love hotels : the hidden fantasy rooms of Japan /
Keasler, Misty,
Love hotels : the hidden fantasy rooms of Japan / photographs by Misty Keasler ; essays by Rod Slemmons and Natsuo Kirino. - various pagings : colour illustrations ; 29 cm
"Sex creates odd cultural conventions everywhere, but nowhere has an institution quite like the Japanese love hotel. To be rented by the hour for amorous liaisons, the theme rooms revealed in this provocative collection of photographs are steeped in fantasy, their elaborate d cor ranging from simulated subway cars to religious bondage with much kink in between. These brash rooms are fascinating in themselves, but also present a window into a very classified aspect of this society. The foreword by best-selling author Natsuo Kirino and passages from hotel guest books lend humor and context to these 80 haunting room portraits, creating an astonishing document of sex and romance, public and private space in Japan."--Publisher description.
0811856410 9780811856416
2006007735
Keasler, Misty.
Photography of interiors--Japan
Sex-oriented businesses--Japan--Pictorial works
TR620 / .K43 2006
779.092
Love hotels : the hidden fantasy rooms of Japan / photographs by Misty Keasler ; essays by Rod Slemmons and Natsuo Kirino. - various pagings : colour illustrations ; 29 cm
"Sex creates odd cultural conventions everywhere, but nowhere has an institution quite like the Japanese love hotel. To be rented by the hour for amorous liaisons, the theme rooms revealed in this provocative collection of photographs are steeped in fantasy, their elaborate d cor ranging from simulated subway cars to religious bondage with much kink in between. These brash rooms are fascinating in themselves, but also present a window into a very classified aspect of this society. The foreword by best-selling author Natsuo Kirino and passages from hotel guest books lend humor and context to these 80 haunting room portraits, creating an astonishing document of sex and romance, public and private space in Japan."--Publisher description.
0811856410 9780811856416
2006007735
Keasler, Misty.
Photography of interiors--Japan
Sex-oriented businesses--Japan--Pictorial works
TR620 / .K43 2006
779.092