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Alberto Vargas Reid Stewart Austin, Hugh Hefner
Bulfinch 0821257927 / 9780821257920 Hardcover New
The legendary pin-up girls painted in the 1940s and 1950s by Alberto Vargas are fiercely fought over by collectors with one Playboy pin-up bringing in an auction record of $71700 at Christie's in 2003. The publishing rights to the artist's work have been tied up in litigation for the past ten years. Now the family is finally able to release a generous new collection of Vargas paintings and drawings many of which are little known or previously unpublished. The famous Varga Girls from Playboy are here of course but alongside these highly sought-after pictures are early unseen works from the 1920s unpublished watercolours rendered for Esquire the celebrated Legacy Nudes and much more. The accompanying essay and captions are by Vargas biographer Reid Stewart Austin whose knowledge of the artist's work is second to none.
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Art Of Baron Von Lind Baron Von Lind
SQP Inc 0865621349 / 9780865621343 Paperback New
Jerry von Lind has a fondness for "old-school", as is evident by the use of his actual family title "Baron", and the lovely young girls he illustrates to classic pin-up perfection. A long-time commercial artist and portrait painter, Jerry's exquisite visions has been highly valued at Madison Avenue, Hollywood, and even Washington DC. As honoured as he is to create portraits of the rich and powerful, it's the lithesome ladies that keep the Baron flying high! This first collection of his pin-up art will have you in the clouds as well, as von Lind's remarkable style and wit is showcased.
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22.95 AUD
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Art Of Baron Von Lind Vol 2 Baron Von Lind
SQP Inc 0865621950 / 9780865621954 Paperback New
Baron Von Lind knows how to create pin-up art that's as bewitching and alluring as anything created in the last century. This title presents a gallery of fresh pieces that celebrates the Baron's need for luscious ladies in lingerie and not-so-innocent smiles on beautiful faces.
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Bettie Page Olivia
Ozone Productions 0929643259 / 9780929643250 Hardcover New
Bettie Page was one of the most popular pin-ups of the 1950s. She first appeared as a Playmate in the pages of PLAYBOY in January, 1955 in a fetching yuletide photo shot by Bunny Yeager. At the end of the decade, she disappeared, but her legend continued to grow until, by the 1990s, she had become an icon.
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Bettie Page Rules Jim Silke
Dark Horse Comics 1593077564 / 9781593077563 Paperback New
If ever there were reason to believe in love at first sight that reason would be Bettie Page. From the moment the first pin-ups of Bettie appeared the world fell in love. Even now a half-century after those first pictures were published men desire her women emulate her and more and more people all over the world adore her. What did Bettie offer the camera that the other more celebrated beauties of her time - including Marilyn Brigitte and Sophia - did not? Legendary pinup artist and entertainment historian Jim Silke dives into these tempting waters and offers his first-hand account of life behind the lens of the '50s pinup scene with his freshest book to date Bettie Page Rules!. Combining fun and informative writing with his singular insight into the world of gorgeous dames Silke delivers a tantalizing pictoral portrait of all the 1950s bombshells. But that's just the tip of the cheesecake!
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Burlesque And The Art Of The Teese Dita Von Teese
Regan 0060591676 / 9780060591670 Hardcover New
On one side Dita Von Teese shares the beauty of the burlesque world with bubblegum dreams and show tunes to strip to. Flip over for fantasies in fetish with dramatic costumes and the allure of submission.
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Femmes Fatales Of The 1950s Bunny Yeager
Schiffer 0764330306 / 9780764330308 Paperback New
Look out! Here come sixty sultry femmes fatales captured at their most alluring by world famous photographer Bunny Yeager. Each image was hand-picked by Yeager herself from her vast photo archives of seductive flirtatious beautiful women. These images are sure to hold every reader's attention and heighten an appreciation for the artistry portrayed on every page. Photo locations range from the familiar and intimate to the wild and exotic yet all the while maintaining a certain 1950s style and flair. Here are the girls you wished had lived next door including actress Allison Hayes ready to capture you with the very first glance.
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Gil Elvgren: All His Glamorous Pin-ups Louis K. Meisel,Charles C. Martignette
Taschen 3836503050 / 9783836503051 Hardcover New
Post-depression America was in desperate need of a defining iconography that would lift it out of the black and white doldrums and it came in theform of Gil Elvgren's Technicolor fantasies of the American dream. His technique-which earned him a reputation as The Norman Rockwell of cheesecake-involved photographing models and then painting them into gorgeous hyper-reality with longer legs more flamboyant hair and gravity-defying busts and in the process making them the perfect moral-boosting eye-candy for every homesick private.
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Jazz Age Beauties Alfred Cheney Johnston
Universe 0789313812 / 9780789313812 Hardcover New
Despite Prohibition, the '20s was the decade of jazz, flappers and hip flasks. While some took their vote and joined the Woman's Christian Temperance Movement, others, well, took liberties. Compiled here for the first time are more than 200 publicity stills and photos of some of America's first "It" girls--the silent film-era starlets who paved the way for the cacophony of Monroes and Madonnas to follow. Accompanying these iconic images are the stories behind them, including accounts from surviving Ziegfeld Girls, as well as ads featuring them that helped perpetuate the allure of It girl glamour. When rare and striking portraits of these women surfaced on the internet in 1995, author Robert Hudovernik began researching their source. What he discovered was the work of one of the first "star makers" identified most with the Ziegfeld Follies, Alfred Cheney Johnston. Johnston, a member of New York's famous Algonquin Round Table who photographed such celebrities as Mary Pickford, Fanny Brice, the Gish Sisters, and Louise Brooks, fell out of the spotlight with the demise of the revue. A sumptuous snapshot of an era, this book is also a look at the work of this "lost" photographer.
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Lady Of Burlesque: The Career Of Gypsy Rose Lee Robert Strom
McFarland & Co Inc 0786438266 / 9780786438266 Paperback New
A brilliant woman who happened to disrobe for a living, Gypsy Rose Lee was commonly known as the "intellectual stripper." Born Rose Louis Hovick in 1911, she had meager beginnings, no formal education, and a mentally ill stage mother who never failed to criticize and demean her daughter. This book details how, despite these hurdles, Gypsy climbed to the peak of every career she tackled. It chronicles her triumphs as an actress, novelist, playwright, artist, political activist, and, ultimately, a star. Three appendices include details on Gypsy's will and estate, the original production and Broadway revivals of her play Gypsy, and complete filmographies and discographies. The book also includes many rare and never-before-published photographs.
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Stars Of Burlesque Len Rothe
Schiffer 0764306030 / 9780764306037 Paperback New
Len Rothe has again pulled from his collection of original photographs of entertainers this delightful selection of over 100 images of Burlesque stars. Together with a revealing text that introduces burlesque to today's new audience, these photographs retain the surprise and teasing elements that endeared the dancers on stage in the heydays of burlesque shows.
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Suicide Girls Missy Suicide
Feral House 1932595031 / 9781932595031 Paperback New
The SuicideGirls adult-entertainment website mixes the edginess smarts and attitude of the best alternative music and culture sites with an unapologetic grassroots approach to sexuality. It is empowered erotica in which women outside of mainstream culture showcase their unique personal styles on their own pages where they put up sexy pinup-style photos of themselves post a personal profile and keep online journals in which they discuss daily experiences (both naughty and nice). In this way they are in charge of their own image and how they are represented. The Girls are from all over the world including the United States Canada England Finland and Sweden. In addition to journal entries selected from the site and over 200 artful X-rated color photos the book contains an introduction by Missy Suicide about how she got involved with this revolutionary culture and started the website.
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Vintage Dita Peter W. Czernich
Edition Skylight 3037665904 / 9783037665909 Hardcover New
Vogue magazine named her the queen of the burlesque revival and Vanity Fair calls her a burlesque superheroine. She's integral to the underground fetish scene yet she's front and center at every buzzed-about fashion show. Today's Bettie Page has transcended such cultural barriers with her astonishing grace class and artistry. This timeless vintage portfolio shows Dita von Teese when her rise to celebrity status was just a heartbeat away. Revealing a side to Dita that is well-known to the public this book explores her fetish for corsets (she has more than 100 tailor-made ones) and her fetish for shoes (I never leave home without my high heels on) as well as other fetishes such as bondage and latex. The stunning front cover image of the 25th issue of Marquis magazine is included featuring Dita painted from top to toe in silver. These stylish sultry images are a fitting tribute to the early modeling days of a truly smart and sexy icon.
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