Misty Keasler : Love Hotels Book Signing February 10, 2007

Misty Keasler spent a year traveling through Japan photographing its kinkiest secret, the Love Hotel. Her photographs of vacant fantasy rooms were turned into a beautiful book complete with passages from love hotel guests.

Join Women & Their Work in welcoming Keasler back to Austin for a book signing. You don’t want to miss this opportunity to get all the dirty… and beautiful details.

About Love Hotels:
Sex creates odd cultural conventions everywhere, but nowhere is there an institution quite like the Japanese love hotels. To be rented by the hour for amorous liaisons, the theme rooms revealed in the provocative collection of photographs are steeped in fantasy, their elaborate décor ranging from Hello Kitty bondage to simulated subway cars with much kink in between. These brash rooms are fascinating in themselves, but also offer a window into a 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 desire.

Free to all

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