EROTIC PHOTOGRAPHY.

Erotic photo art has lost much of its exquisite soul since Playboy and other girlie monthlies repackaged the human body for massmarket consumption. Ever-bigger print runs of increasingly grotesque photos of women in every imaginable position have edged out emotion and reduced erotica to mere physical sex appeal. Only in the late 1970s did great men like Helmut Newton and Mapplethorpe come to the fore with high-quality art photography.