The Sexiest Art Books You Can Buy Right Now

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Pin-ups, bondage, and erotica! Summer is heating up, and we've put together a list of art reads that are equally as steamy. Two books, Nudity Today and New Erotic Photography, Vol. 1, show us how today's young photographers are thinking about the nude body. Our list includes pivotal artists that shed light on sex and sexuality with titles about Lee Friedlander's black-and-white nudes from the '60s and '70s, '80s NYC downtown darling Nan Goldin, and contemporary photographer Dana Hoey. From Richard Kern's alluring models from all over the world to Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki's shocking bondage images, spice up your library with The Sexiest Art Books You Can Buy Right Now. And you don't even have to hide these nudie pics under your bed. 

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New Erotic Photography Vol. 1

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Bunny Yeager's Darkroom: Pin-up Photography's Golden Era

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Alvarado's Pin-up Nudes

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The Origin Of The World

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Diamonds and Pearls

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Wild Lolitas

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30 Millennia of Erotic Art

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SuicideGirls: Hard Girls, Soft Light

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Bondage

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Strictly Bondage

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Dana Hoey: The Phantom Sex

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Nudity Today

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The Ballad of Sexual Dependency

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Lee Frielander The Nudes: A Second Look

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Shot By Kern

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