During the 1960’s and 1970’s, Batters created, “Black Silk Stockings”, “Sheer Delight”, “Leg-O-Rama”, “Nylon Doubletake”, “Tip Top” and “Thigh Noon” from his own photographs.Įlmer was arrested for publishing his magazines “Man’s favorite Pastime” and “Black Silk Stockings”, charging him with obscenity, not for the model’s bare breasts, but for their feet. There are a few adult “leg men” who haven’t admired and covered a Batters photograph. like any true artist he was driven to express his emotions in his work, and what came through in Elmers’s masterpieces was ardent foot-love. He just couldn’t control his passion for the foot, didn’t want to, even though he knew it was socially unacceptable, and possibly perverse. This was the beginning of a long history of publishing problems and the birth of his considerable worldwide following.
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All 5,000 copies of “Man’s Favorite Pastime” were sold, but Elmer received little money. In the early 1960’s he turned to self-publishing and inadvertently found his first publisher. He’s submit his leg art to magazines but unfortunately many of the mainstream “girlie” magazines didn’t share his interest. In the beginning, Batters would shoot all day and print all night. The calf, a woman’s high arch, flexible toes, and a well-rounded heel were essential elements in an Elmer Batters photograph. His vision began at the “tip of the toes”, and ran to the “top of the hose”.
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Unlike his peers, Batters wasn’t breast obsessed. Schooled on the classic Elvgren pin-up art of World War II,Elmer began photographing live models in the late 1940’s in sunny Los Angeles, California. Elmer Batters spent a lifetime looking through a view finder at women’s legs and feet.