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Summary: Taschen should be ashamed of this poor edition!
Review: Pin-ups, by well known publisher of erotica and photo books Taschen, contains generally well scanned and well printed covers of 40's and 50's mens magazines: Wink, Eyeful, Titter, Flirt. And some content from interior pages.
However, Taschen has badly cropped most of the cover images. Many of the images have ~30% of the image area missing. It's been cut off!. Rather than adding extra white space around the images so that the book will offer a good viewing experience, they are run into the binding!
Avoid this poor edition! Instead I suggest The book: The Great American Pin-up.
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Summary: Boring overall
Review: 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.
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Summary: Boring overall
Review: When I saw this book, I was expecting (and hoping) to see only pin-up art, and that is all I saw when I quickly browsed through it. However in a more thorough look through, this book is an equal mix of pin-up art and pin-up photography from the 40s and 50s. The book starts off with a brief history of pin-up magazines in the US during the 40s and 50s. In the usual Taschen style, it is given in English, German and French. The magazines covered in the book are Wink, Eyeful, Beauty Parade, Flirt and Titter. Each magazine is allocated a section in the book, and start of with full pages replications of some magazine covers, then some black and white pictorials with extremely corny captions. The pictorials are by todays standards tame, and there is almost no nudity. Pin-ups was worth my while just for the pin-up art, but the pictorials, I thought were not my cup of tea, although it did give me some sort of insight into glamour of the 40s and 50s.
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Summary: Pin-up art and photography from the 40s and 50s
Review: When I saw this book, I was expecting (and hoping) to see only pin-up art, and that is all I saw when I quickly browsed through it. However in a more thorough look through, this book is an equal mix of pin-up art and pin-up photography from the 40s and 50s. The book starts off with a brief history of pin-up magazines in the US during the 40s and 50s. In the usual Taschen style, it is given in English, German and French. The magazines covered in the book are Wink, Eyeful, Beauty Parade, Flirt and Titter. Each magazine is allocated a section in the book, and start of with full pages replications of some magazine covers, then some black and white pictorials with extremely corny captions. The pictorials are by todays standards tame, and there is almost no nudity. Pin-ups was worth my while just for the pin-up art, but the pictorials, I thought were not my cup of tea, although it did give me some sort of insight into glamour of the 40s and 50s.
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