Karen Hsiao: Rubber Duck

-Baby Tattoo Books (2010)-. First edition 2010. 127 pages. Illustrated in colour. Pictorial cloth. A couple of small dents to the front cloth, very minor. Very good. No dustjacket required. Karen Hsiao uses a simple object, the rubber duck, and a single location, the bathtub, to examine and expose various stages of the human life cycle in this stunning erotic photography collection. From birth to death, through good times and bad, in sickness and in health, the human condition is a series of thematic episodes in simple - yet shocking - portraits of unusual bathing beauties who represent our inner selves. Children, monsters, lovers, fighters, victims and caregivers are all represented by famous fetish models in the tub with their rubber ducks.