Kiss of Fire: A Romantic View of Sadomasochism, photographs by Barbara Nitke, Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg, 2003, 104 oversized pages, casebound, $40, ISBN 3-933257-94-8.

It’s no easy thing to capture the subtlety and complexity of s/m play in a photograph.

There are, to be sure, thousands of fetish photos and dozens of fetish photography […]