In case you've somehow managed to miss checking out Tony Ward's work at some point—and if you're a connoisseur of the kind of erotic photography that straddles the line between cutting-edge fashion and really hot smut, that's probably been pretty hard to do—his new retropective book and accompanying gallery exhibition the powerHouse Gallery in New York is the perfect place to start catching up on the artist whom Nerve calls "a darling of curators, writers and critics, even though he lives on the edge of acceptability." (Which is, of course, the very place we here at Fleshbot prefer to spend most of our time.)

Tony Ward: "Best of Erotica" (book and exhibition info @ powerhousebooks.com)

Order: Tony Ward, "Orgasm", "Orgasm XL", "Tableaux Vivants" (Amazon)

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