Doris Monastery
Doris Kloster is an American photographer , editor, and filmmaker .
1978 she studied until 1983 at Boston University, where Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and at the Art Institute of Boston , among other art history . Since 1983 she has been working in the USA (New York) and in Europe (Paris, London, Milan). Doris Kloster is co-founder and editor of the culture magazine FAD.
Her first artistic photos were sacred photos and were taken in German baroque churches. In 1987 Doris Kloster began a photographic documentation in the New York BDSM scene, which was followed by various photo series and art films on the subject of BDSM and fetish. A photographic adaptation of the story of O was published in 2000. Since 1987, Kloster's works have been presented repeatedly at exhibitions in the USA and Europe.
Photo books
- Doris Monastery. Photographs. , Cologne: Benedikt Taschen Verlag, 1995 ISBN 3822888753
- Doris Kloster: Forms Of Desire. , New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998 ISBN 0312194145 [with a foreword by Pat Califia ; the volume contains the five series Sadean Women , Ritual Love , Obscure Objects of Desire , Divine Androgyne and Ecstatic Theater ]
- The Illustrated Story of O. Photographs by Doris Kloster. With extracts from the original text by Pauline Réage. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000 ISBN 0312266057 [with an introduction by Jean-Jacques Pauvert ; some of the 50 color photos were taken in the Château de Saint-Loup, France]
- Doris Kloster's Demimonde, a visual exploration of fetish. New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 2002 ISBN 1560254068
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| SURNAME | Monastery, Doris |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American photographer, editor, and filmmaker |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |