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Original Snapshot 1955 collection Jim Linderman
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TRYING TO IDENTIFY THIS AFRICAN-AMERICAN PIN UP MODEL OF THE 1950S for a BOOK? ANY HELP??? More pics at the link. Anyone recognize, or forward to a friend? http://vintagesleaze.blogspot.com/2012/11/tawny-most-beautiful-african-american.html#.USfz7Oh8tEI
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Anita Ventura The Extraordinary true tales of Anita Ventura HERE on Vintage Sleaze the daily art Blog
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the RARE BETTIE PAGE blog posts obscure Bettie Page photo, artifact or emphemera every day. ADULTS ONLY and NSFW
Source: rarebettiepage.blogspot.com
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Harlem Ebony Pin Up Women 1956 HERE on Dull Tool Dim Bulb
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During the 1950s, under the ruse of “Art Studies” and “Figure Studies” amateur businessman skirted the law publishing hundreds of digest-sized primitive camera art photographs of nearly nude women. Seldom dated, by somewhat disreputable publishers, the digests featured burlesque dancers and models such as Bettie Page in makeshift studios, and were the first books to challenge censorship and the conventions of the times as it related to the female form. The tawdry origins of Glamour Photography! The booklets are today scarce and seldom seen. Dubbed Proto-Porn, over 100 have been collected in book form by the first time by Jim Linderman. Proto-Porn details the publishers and addresses the conflicting notions of art and nudity of the Eisenhower years. Colorful, disreputable and quasi-legal, the books nonetheless pre-date modern-day fashion and nude photography. Tame by any standard today, the books have not been shown in over 50 years, and never before collected in a book. PREVIEW FREE or order download or paperback book HERE
Source: blurb.com
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ORIGINAL ARTICLE by Jim Linderman ON SUGARCUT HERE
Proto-Porn from the 1950S
Shown is a wide-angle lens full of vintage camera club pinup digests from the early 1950s. Long ignored progenitors of pinup pulchitrude! It was illegal to sell nude photographs in the Eisenhower days, but some enterprising and greedy shutterbug gahoots found a way around the law, frequently in cahoots with the guys downtown, if you know what I mean.
“Figure Study” publications for the artist and photographer!
These obscure digests were all purportedly aimed at the burgeoning nude photography hobbyist, or at least they claimed to be. They were available under the counter or through the mail, at least until Uncle Sam got wise. The models, some famous (Blaze Starr, Judy O’Neal, Bettie Page and many more) were pulled from burlesque routes and strip clubs…others were amateurs who replied to ads. There are no less than five devoted to Ms. Page alone from various publishers. All are hard to find today. Each is now over 50 years old… and since they were published in small editions by phony companies, then carried by trunk and hand to the shop, few survive today. Many have no return address or date. Shop owners priced them at what they thought the risk was worth.
The models in these “proto-porn” periodicals never had pudenda or pubes. The photographs were black and white, and each digest-sized booklet ran from 20 to 50 pages. The colorful covers belie the blurry pages inside. The men behind the camera were seldom identified, but with care and a loupe, one can often identify the photographer’s swinging pads from the wall decorations and curtain designs.
Who was responsible for these stroke books masquerading as figure studies for photographers? At least one series was produced by a later prominent publisher of fetish pinup periodicals. Others came from a husband and wife team living in Midtown Manhattan a few doors down from Bettie Page, and a big load from a mysterious photographer with a Florida address…a sunny address he began using after apparently thinking the city up north was “too hot” and left Brooklyn behind. Nearly all were published in series, but a complete set is unheard of.
The books are today relics of days gone by. Despite history books which credit Hugh Hefner with starting the modern revolution in nude photography, not to mention sexual mores, it was a dozen independent small presses with moxie (and buxie) with a few mob-connections who got the balls rolling.
Jim Linderman is an author, collector and editor of the daily blog VINTAGE SLEAZE. This group of original “Figure Study” digests come from the author’s collection and date circa 1950 – 1955. Vintage Sleaze the daily blog is HERE.
FULL ARTICLE AND SLIDESHOW ON SUGARCUT HERE
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Bettie Page of the Day CREDIT: Anonymous, Unidentified Photographer, published in “Artistic Models” No Date, “Art Photos” publication, no location. circa 1955. Collection Victor Minx
SEE ALSO THE BOOK CAMERA CLUB GIRLS by Jim Linderman HERE
ALSO AVAILABLE AS DOWNLOAD FOR iPAD $5.99. For over 50 years, the extraordinary Hand-Painted Original Photographs of Bettie Page and nude models of the 1950s taken by Rudolph Rossi lay hidden. Now, for the first time, over 100 have been published in Camera Club Girls by Jim Linderman. 114 pages, 35 pages of text and 180 pictures, the book tells the story of the informal groups of early camera enthusiasts in New York City who paid ten dollars each to photograph naked women, including Bettie Page, in dingy studios and outdoor excursions. As much the history of early erotic photography and Times Square smut as it is the story of the personal vision of an artist, photographer and painter which has not been told until now.
Source: dulltooldimbulb
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Lost and Unknown. The most beautiful African-American Cheesecake Model of the 1950s
Story HERE on Dull Tool Dim Bulb and HERE uncensored
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STORY OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL AFRICAN-AMERICAN MODEL OF THE 1950s? See it HERE
on Dull Tool Dim Bulb the Art Blog
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Essay by Jim Linderman Vintage Vernacular Erotic Photography HERE on Sugarcut NSFW ADULT ONLY CREDIT Original Photograph circa 1920 Collection Jim Linderman
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Pin Up Girls with Guns (A special investigative report into armed models on VINTAGE SLEAZE THE BLOG coming soon!)
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Black Pin Up Book Review of SECRET HISTORY OF THE BLACK PIN UP by Jim Linderman
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