Sunday, December 17, 2006
Love Hotels photo book
Photographer Misty Keasler's book Love Hotels documents the curious, strange, and kinky theme rooms inside the Japanese hotels that are usually rented for short times and a very specific purpose. Inside, you'll visit the Hello Kitty S&M Room (image right) and the High School Room at Osaka's Hotel Adonis, the Arctic Room at Snowman's Hotel in Kobe, Subway Room (image left) at Hotel Loire in Osaka, and my favorite, the Alien Abduction Play Area also at Hotel Loire. Reminds me of San Luis Obispo, California's Madonna Inn only, ummm, different. The book's editor at Chronicle, BB pal Alan Rapp, tells me that prints from Keasler's Love Hotels series will be exhibited early next year at Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Photography (1/25-3/24), Jenkins Johnson Gallery (1/27-3/3) in New York City, and Photographs Do Not Bend (2/16-3/24) in Dallas.
Link to buy Love Hotels, Link to Love Hotels gallery at Photographs Do Not Bend
UPDATE: bOING bOING buddy Jim Leftwich says, "When I imagine an S&M Hello Kitty, it's a little bit more like this."
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