Elmer Batters (November 24, 1919 – June 25, 1997) was a pioneer fetish photographer who specialized in capturing artful images of women with an emphasis on stockings, legs, and feet. He was ahead of his time in popularizing foot-fetish imagery as erotic entertainment. As a foot-fetish pioneer starting in the 1950s, Batters helped make this formerly closeted field of sexual interest more acceptable, even fashionable, among today's hip, well-educated alternative lifestyles set. Taschen has published several books featuring the work of Elmer Batters.