Eric David Kroll (born October 23, 1946) is an American photojournalist,[1] fetish photographer, erotica historian, and book editor.
[2][3] Eric Kroll's commercial work began in Taos, New Mexico in 1969, when he partnered with friend Sam Bruskin to open a gallery.
[7] In the early 1980s he turned away from portrait photography with a series title "Fetish Girls" (1994), which remains one of the best selling books in the publisher Taschen's history.
[9] Many of Kroll's photographs refer to and pay homage to his predecessors Weegee and Bunny Yeager[10] as well as Eric Stanton and John Willie.
Photographers included Annie Leibovitz, Robert Mapplethorpe, Helmut Newton, Cecil Beaton, actor Dennis Hopper, and others.