Takayuki Nakamura
Race Queen & Event Companion: For Leg & Hip Freaks
1st Edition, 1997
Shinkosha
£90
A cult fetish photo book from Japanese photographer Takayuki Nakamura documenting ‘race queens’, professional promotional models in motorsports particularly common in Japanese racing, through a tightly focused, fetish-driven lens. Shot at the margins of motorsport and promotional culture, the book isolates legs, hips, posture, and uniform, turning commercial spectacle into a study of form, repetition, and desire. Rather than presenting full narrative context, Nakamura’s photographs crop the subject to fragments of synchronised poses with faces obscured and out of frame. The result is situated somewhere between subcultural fetish photography and documentary, and reflects an era when niche obsessions were given dedicated, unapologetic platforms in print.
Condition: Very good Unpaginated, 21 × 30cm





























