Published in 1977, Sex Objects is Eric Kroll’s debut photobook and a rare document of American sex work in the mid-seventies. Produced during extended travel through the Midwest, California, and Texas, the project brings together direct photographic portraits and unfiltered interviews with women working in peep shows, massage parlours, roadside sex shops, and short-stay motels.
 
Kroll’s photographs are restrained and observational, avoiding drama or stylisation. The subjects face the camera with a quiet clarity, neither posed nor obscured. Alongside the images, candid first-person interviews are printed throughout the book, creating a rhythm that foregrounds voice as much as image.
 
Rather than sensationalising its subject, Sex Objects functions as a social record, attentive to individual experience and place. Published only as a paperback by Addison House, the book is now scarce and stands as an important early work in Kroll’s career and in the history of documentary erotic photography.