Notable artists in BDSM and bondage visual culture—illustration, comics, and related image-making. See also lists of BDSM photographers and fetish artists.
- Nobuyoshi Araki — Japanese erotic / kinbaku-adjacent work
- Gene Bilbrew; Robert Bishop — U.S. underground bondage illustrators
- Charles Guyette — early fetish photo and mail-order pioneer
- Jeff Gord — engineered extreme-bondage imagery
- Erich von Götha de la Rosière — European SM illustration
- Sadao Hasegawa; Namio Harukawa; Seiu Ito — Japanese SM, femdom, and kinbaku art lineages
- Eric Kroll; Roy Stuart — explicit fetish still photography
- Monica Majoli — contemporary queer SM fine art
- Michael Manning — latex and fetish narrative comics
- Peter Acworth — studio BDSM visual culture (Kink.com era)
- Robert Mapplethorpe; Ken Marcus; Helmut Newton; Barbara Nitke; Daido Moriyama; Fakir Musafar — photography from leather fine art to fashion power and ritual body modification
- Satine Phoenix — kink/bondage arts educator-artist
- Rex; Bill Schmeling — gay leather SM illustration
- Sardax — contemporary femdom illustration
- Franco Saudelli — Italian bondage cartoons
- Stjepan Sejic — graphic-novel BDSM storytelling (Sunstone)
- Joe Shuster — underground fetish illustration history
- Eric Stanton — femdom and bondage comics
- Bill Ward — mid-century pin-up / fetish-leaning art
- John Willie — Bizarre; Sweet Gwendoline bondage cartoons
Further reading: Richard Pérez Seves, Eric Stanton & the History of the Bizarre Underground (Schiffer, 2018; ISBN 978-0764355424).
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