Photojournalist Eric Kroll was born in New York in 1946. His work has appeared in The New York Times, Der Spiegel, Vogue, and Elle. In the 1980s, he acquired and circulated a series of Betty Page photographs, helping turn Page into a pop culture icon. In the latter part of the 1980s, Kroll began taking erotic photos, as seen in such books as Eric Kroll's Fetish Girls and Eric Kroll's Beauty Parade.