1000 Pin-Up Girls
Product Description
“Girls, Gags & Giggles” – this was publisher Robert Harrison’s recipe for dishing up the American pin-up to the U.S. male. In the 1950s, his girlie magazines sold by the millions, before becoming icons of pulp and trash culture.These skilfully illustrated girls with their curvaceous forms and inviting lingerie soon overtook America’s national dessert, in terms of popularity, and even developed considerable potential as a cultural export during the 1940s. ‘Never show… More >>
This is for the pin-up artist fan and for anyone curious about the ages of yore. These aren’t nudes – they are pretty much just pin-up paintings or little silly skits of women in bikinis or underwear or props hiding the vitals, looking and acting sexy, but coming over more like a housewife who thinks it’s all silly. A modern bikini magazine with the models flirting their heat is far more sexy … Overall: black and white pictures, pin-up covers. …
Actually I found it interesting that one lady hammered together a scooter out of office furniture casters and wood; and Betty Paige is in a silly skit riding a scooter that looks like the ancestor of today’s hot new inline aluminum crazes. …
Mediocre. For the fans of older artwork and tame pin-up photos, and for photo buffs who like looking back into the past to see just how much like today people were back then – some things considered.
Rating: 3 / 5
There are very few books on the subject of men’s magazines that are perfect. Yes, the printer over-trimmed this title–it has its flaws. However, I have yet to find a thicker, more colorful collection showing the covers of vintage men’s mags. Every page is an eye-catcher, and I’m happy to have this book on my shelf.
Rating: 5 / 5
This book is very nice- full of charming high quality images of old pin ups.
Rating: 5 / 5
This book originally was planned for 1956 but somehow the gallies [no pun?] wound up buried beneath Ed Norton’s collection of books on Astrology. I guess he became friendly with the original publisher who had an office near his worksite on Madison Avenue.
Just a little fantasy…on a fanatsy. The “fantasy” today is that femininity cannot square with workplace and social assertiveness. We’re on the androgyny tip today…not that there’s anything wrong with that.
Just like today, “sex sells” in these classic covers from “Beauty Parade”, “Mink”, et. al magz. But back then, it was actually “sexism sells”. The models looked in to the camera eye with a touch of….forgive me……”vulnerability”?
Va-va-va-voom!!!
Rating: 5 / 5
I enjoyed this Taschen edition, as I generally do with all of their publications. I remember seeing all these gals on calendars in my Dad’s garage – he wouldn’t dare bring some of these scantily dressed ladies like this into the house. Some of the names of the magazines were memorable – Eyeful, Beauty Parade, Whisper, Wink and my favorite one Titter. Times have changed with our more open society with X-movies, vibrators, Playboy and Hustler. These were a great series of pin-ups and I’m glad they were saved for posterity, and clearly help to explain the changing traditions and customs of sexuality in America.
Rating: 4 / 5