Bondage

Beautiful vintage illustrations of rope, restraints, captivity and elegant helplessness.

  • Christmas Present

    First of all I would like to wish all visitors and fans of this site a very nice Christmas, enjoy your holiday and quality time with family and friends. At the end of the year I am taking it a bit slower, so don’t expect many updates these coming weeks…

  • Albert Dubout

    Albert Dubout (1905 – 1976) was born in Marseille. After attending school at Nîmes (where he met Jean Paulhan) he studied at the fine arts school in Montpellier where he met his first wife, Renée Altier, and where his first drawings were published in the student journal L’écho des étudiants…

  • Jay

    For artist Jay there is not a lot to find. He was one of the illustrators that created publications for Nutrix (Irving Klaw). Be sure to check out the page for B&G as well. So far I could find two publications:

  • Ran Akiyoshi

    Ran Akiyoshi was born in 1922. In 1946, after the end of the war, he went to Tokyo and in 1947 he married and made a living by drawing portraits of US military officers.Around 1950 he started working on covers. Akiyoshi drew illustrations and covers for Fuzoku Soshi, Kitan Club,…