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Bad Girls Hotel - NSFW NFSW NSFW!!!

Bad Girls Hotel - NSFW NFSW NSFW!!!

Warning: all of the links in this post should be considered Not! Safe! For! Work! Do not click any of them if you are still at the office.

Bob Coulter is one of our favorite NYC porn photographers (porntographers?)-- right up there with Terry Richardson. Coulter's seminal (get it!) book, Crazy Babe, was a tour-de-force of New York nakedness. His new book, Bad Girls Hotel, is also steeped in New York juices:

What is even more strange is the hotel where Bob has done these photos. Spinning off his original idea of photographing his “babes” at the “upscale” Chelsea Hotel in Manhattan, Bob has gone over the edge with this work. All the photos have been done in the course of a year at the notorious “Carlton Arms Hotel” on 25th street. Nobody in their right mind would ever stay there. So the guests that do stay there are mostly European tourists, and some natives who want to be able to say they spent a night in a room that reminds you of the Merry Pranksters’ Magic Bus.

I guess almost nobody does acid anymore….but if they did….this is how they would decorate a hotel. Built in the 1840s, this five floor walk up features about 40 guest rooms, all of which are about 10 x 10 feet, with just enough room for a bed and a washbasin. Once a “gentlemens hotel” for businessmen coming in by horse from New Jersey, the hotel at one time had an adjoining stable and a well reputed eating establishment. It also had one of the first elevators in the city….a scary device that is now permanently anchored in its shaft….which is currently being used as the linen closet.

Here's a gallery of about 25 pictures from the book-- all COMPLETELY! TOTALLY! UNSAFE! FOR! WORK! Also check out the site for the book, or buy the book on Amazon-- it'll be on sale in a couple of weeks. [Tangential: our very own pornographer, Rachel Kramer Bussel, has some hot new semi-naked shots of herself up on her website.]

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  • mmm

    i want bad girls

  • AHMAD

    IMAGE

  • guy

    thank you.

  • REALITY CHECK

    While the subjects and location are visually interesting, the photos themselves are really poorly shot. Note the bad shadows, awkward posing angles and shutter blurring. These look like typical art student photos. If some of you took the time to stop jerking off, you'd notice this.

  • Smiley

    Jack,

    It may be 'porn wrapped in art pretensions', but it's Porn nonetheless. And that's all that matters, isn't it? Nice diversion. Thanks, Jake.

  • Kojak

    Gothamist should have more NSFW posts like these. It sure beats the hell out of those editorials.

    Kudos Gothamist. Kudos.

  • huh

    "Completely totally not safe for work?"

    Why, will my pc blow up?

  • mr.dennis

    man, you were not kidding about the "not safe for work" disclaimer. i have at least one co-worker that will be knocking next time they come into my office!

  • jake

    not at all- in fact, according to our trusty pal sitemeter, pageviews have been spiking to an all time high these last few weeks. the real question is what i'm doing looking at art porn at work! wait, i forgot-- i now work on gothamist LLC full time, and i'm free to do whatever i want! rock on!

  • It's porn wrapped in art pretensions.

    Is the the page-view count that low at Gothamist HQ?

  • sp

    or is it porn art?

  • sp

    mmmmmmmmmm, art porn

  • patricia

    I stayed there once, the room was so spooky we couldn't sleep. We checked out at 7am the next morning. Gross is the word I would use to describe The Carlton Arms.

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