The Lusty Lady

By Erika Langley

When Erica Langley approached the female management of Seattle's Lusty Lady she was told that to photograph the peep show dancers she would have to become one. Through photos and texts that are both... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3931141594
• ISBN13: 9783931141592
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Scalo Publishers
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

A rare project!

This is one of these rare projects, where the photographer actually had the courage to jump over this so called journalistic objectivity, immersed herself into her work, became one with it. I believe any serious work in these surroundings can only be done by an participant, there is so much going on in the mind, which an outsider will never see, but will be essential to the endresult. That's why this book is a jewel. Adding to that is that her style in photography is so multilayered and emotional, great. There is one big minus. Shame on Scalo (the publisher)! How can they disrespect her work so much by binding the book so shoddily, that the cover started coming off when I first opened the book! The printing is dull and the layout is done without any skills, not doing justice to the great photos. All my respect to Erica, and shame on Scalo. It hurts me when a big publisher like Scalo is too stingy to give the right treatment to such an important photo project. Nevertheless, that book deserves five stars, and I don't regret it at all having bought it.

Couldn't put this down!

This book has a very specific audience... I don't think that it is for everyone! ...but if you've come this far then it just might be for you. It was interesting to read Erika Langley's personal text about the diverse individuals that choose to work in the alternative world of exotic dancing. What was most engrossing was that Erika crossed the line that seperated herself from the dancers, becoming an exotic dancer and not simply documenting them. Regardless if you agree with her decision, it certainly draws attention to how an outsider might perceive a situation differently than an insider and how that perception affects choices in their photography. I am a local of Seattle and certainly enjoyed learning more about this historic place of buisness. My interests in photography and feminism also influenced my enjoyment of this book

eye-opening and arousing

Erika has taken beautiful photographs of beautiful women and made them all very real to the reader. Her insightful and honest writing style, as well as the inside interviews with dancers tells us everything we want to know: how the dancers themselves view their profession, their customers, and themselves- very sexually empowering- i loved it!

Tells it how it is....

Brilliant, but I may be biased being an ex-Lusty! Erika Langley captures life at the Lusty Lady in Seattle perfectly. The pictures are beautiful, humourous and above all tell the story of the real women behind the peep show image. Langley's own diary entries and perfomer interviews give depth to the images...leave your preconceptions behind and find out what it's really like to be a "Lusty Lady".

Enlightening perspective and wonderful photographs.

As an ex-Lusty, I admit to having a bias while reading Langley's book. Through it, I re-lived the lusty sorority which took me through college and beyond, with a "wow, that's just what it was like," on every page. So I loved it because it was true to life. Take a look at this book if, as my fellow reviewers state, you want insight into the world of peep show life or a sense of how women can bond on a unique, intense level. The photos alone say it all. Unreachable female perfection isn't the point of the Lusty; instead, the attraction of the theatre is the psychological connection between customer and performer and between performers themselves. Langley's tour captures that perspective while vulnerably revealing her own lovely (and difficult) experience.