Bob Carlos Clarke

-- Bob Carlos Clarke, the photographer who has died aged 56, specialised in erotic images of women; his models - who ranged from Jerry Hall and Rachel Weisz to teenage girls plucked off the street - were often clad in skin-tight latex, posing provocatively, even pornographically, and his images attracted both controversy and critical acclaim.

Subversive, voyeuristic and overtly sexual, with titles such as Unexploded Female and Adult Females Attack Without Provocation, his pictures did not endear him to the feminist movement. But he successfully combined his fetishistic photography with commercial work (for companies such as Levi's and Smirnoff), real life images and portraits, and established a reputation as versatile photographer and talented photographic printmaker. --