wherefrostreignhangar:S&M SniperIssue 4, 1980.S&M Sniper is a legendary Japanese kinbaku mag
wherefrostreignhangar:S&M SniperIssue 4, 1980.S&M Sniper is a legendary Japanese kinbaku magazine first published by Million Publishing September 1979. It remained in circulation until October 2008, but was from 1998 issued by Wailea Publication. After physical operations seized it continued as an exclusive web publication. January 2016 it was revived to print as a quarterly magazine with nawashi Marai Masato as editor.For close to 40 years, S&M Sniper have been a key influence and window into Japanese SM culture and the radical underground. It was the first magazine to successfully merge sadomasochistic pornography with glossy fashion language, contemporary art and subculture in the format of bondage magazine. In sum, the magazine was solemnly responsible for branding a new form of market identity and chapter in SM publishing with its fresh signature visual aesthetics that was in clear contrast to existing bondage publications. S&M Sniper promoted extravagant innovations in bondage with emphasis on refined aesthetic appreciation with intense impact. In content, it was widely respected for its professional execution and ability to anticipate and even exceeded zeitgeist and readers needs. But what made the paper unique was veiled beyond the hyper-stylized front covers of artist Yosuke Onishi. In its core pages there was a hardened focus on non-fiction realist degradation and an eclectic editorial of: kinbaku, SM-related fetishes and expertly curated works from art, literature and subculture. With the appearance of legend Oniroku Dan in its debut issue and thereof blessing S&M Sniper by association, this new format magazine was quickly welcomed by its readers and became increasingly popular until it rose to leading print in the mid 1980s. Accordingly, S&M Sniper evolved into a vital force in Japan SM publishing and in the following years it cooperated with many contemporary innovators and cultural heavy weights in print.The collaborations with Yosuke Onishi, photographers Nobuyoshi Araki and Ken-ichi Murata, BDSM trainer Shima Shikou as well as Masami Akita would all prove to extend in time. From the first issue to December 2006 Onishi was responsible for all cover art. Prior to S&M Sniper he had been involved with art book publisher Parco and his meticulous and sensuous air brush paintings was featured in national print. Araki, already established and exhibiting at the ’79 Venice Biennale, would recur in most issues from 1979 to early the 2000s with photo series such as «Tokyo Kinbaku» and «Tokyo Alice». The delicately composed and meticulously developed works of Ken-ichi Murata are truly sensations in essence and visual form. Composing his hand-painted black and white photography from native story lines brought to life through conversations with his models, he conjured an unique visual language and space that implicated the hidden eroticism of innocent fairy tales and arcane mythology. Rope master Shima Shikou’s presence was the manifestation of the darker chambers in cruel humiliation bondage. Between 1987 and 2005 he produced several works and articles for S&M Sniper, one being the infernal series «Supreme Dandyism». Apart from a few selected guest appearances such as the aforementioned BDSM trainer, all tight-binding for print purposes was executed by the editor in chief. SM archivist and noise musician Masami Akita aka Merzbow serialized his essay «Man as god of doom» in the mid-1990s.The success of S&M Sniper spawned several special editions numbers, ‘sister magazines’ and collector book projects. Some of these are titles: SM Original, SM Portraits, SM Beauties, Photo Sniper and the highly collectable ’S&M Sniper Special Edition Box Set «Trance Body Bondage»’ by rope master Haruki Yukimura and photographer Junko Takahashi. During the last decade S&M Sniper have issued a long filmography of SM DVD releases and is now collaborating with imprint EVE on a joint magazine venture.Soft coverJapanese languageColor / B&WFormat: 15 x 21 cm252 PagesPublished by Million Publishing April 1980.Price: 45,- Euro + shipping. -- source link
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