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Frou-Frou ~ Paris 1953 Marilyn Monroe Can-Can

April 29, 2014, 2:42 pm
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One of my favorite French girlie magazines of the 1950s is Frou-Frou, a perfect word for those frilly petticoats that got flounced around by Can-Can dancers at the Folies Bergere. Beginning after WWII with particular interested in movie stars and starlettes, Frou-Frou featured for many years, almost exclusively, American film actresses on the cover.

Earlier this year, at the paper show in Paris, I found a hardbound volume of Frou-Frou, circa 1953, with four different issues bound together. Two featured Marilyn Monroe covers, one with her sitting on the lap of character actor Charles Coburn (posed with them is Jane Russell in a still photo from Gentleman Prefer Blondes); the two other covers featured Ava Gardner and French star, Martine Carol. 

The four issues are filled with pin-ups, bathing beauties and international models posed in lingerie, as well as music-hall and cabaret performers in scanty costumes plus a few photos of dancers in frou-frou skirts doing the Can-Can - bien sur! 


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Gene Bilbrew FETISH Illustration Peerless Sales 1950s

April 30, 2014, 6:47 am
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In the late 1950s in New York City Peerless Sales created an extensive series of four page publications illustrated by Gene Bilbrew and Eric Stanton. It was a single sheet of 11" x 17" paper, printed both sides and folded in half. Very scarce and including work by both artists not to be seen elsewhere. Posted here are a handful of issues illustrated by Bilbrew. As always with his illustrations, the main thrust of each story is the tough sadistic broad, dominate female out to settle a score, to prove that she and her sisters cannot be pushed around and abused. I love the comic books style of these four-page publications.

Characters featuring in the series: Big Milly, Kitti Kane, Blondetta, Enorma and Iron Woman. Here's a random selection, a handful of which are still in stock and available for purchase.


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Nudism HELIOS European Friends of the Sun 1950s

April 30, 2014, 7:40 am
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Amongst the most popular of the nudist publications of the 1950s were the European magazines including Helios, Sonnenstrahl and Sonnen Freunde. The three were associated with serious sun bathing, nudist organizations and were "official" publications filled with news, articles and high quality photographs. A selection from the archives. 

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NUDES Pin-Ups Busty Babes 1950s Photographs

April 30, 2014, 9:28 am
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Somehow in our lives, call it the "sense memory" part of the brain, there are sights, sounds and tastes that trigger intense associations of a time or place. Without mounting the glossy, 4" x 5" girlie photographs of the 1950s on too high a pedestal, I have a very strong, boyhood sense memory in association with my first viewing of these (at the time) illicit photographs. Discovered buried deep in my father's "sock drawer" the few photos found there hold a strong and enjoyable sense memory for me.

Indeed, for all the years that have followed when viewing the thousands of these photographs I collected, bought and sold, comes a bit of that memory. I sense an empty apartment, a dimly lit bedroom, a blond colored dresser draw opened where I fumble around, finding photos of ladies I kind of recognize. They resemble undressed versions of relatives, and family friends, willingly posed in and out of dresses, bras, panties, garter belts and stockings. And at that moment in time, they were the most seductive things I had ever seen.

Above is one of my favorite photographs of the genre, encapsulating for me the variety of women that I encountered as a boy growing up. Each one brings back the fading face of a women, probably a family friend, whose name was long ago forgotten.


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Donna "Busty" Brown

Dolores Devaugh on the right posed with two friends





Dolores Devaugh on the right




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Jackie Miller


 Terry Barton


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PARLIAMENT Publications: L.A. Hose & Heels 1960s

April 30, 2014, 11:54 am
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When Los Angeles got into the men's magazine game it, the publishers and photographers, never looked back, claiming the genre for their own. Let's say for argument's sake that the full size, adult bookstore type magazine (no advertising; restricted to non-newsstand sales to 18 and over) began in the late 1950s on the East Coast and migrated to Los Angeles as the precursors to Parliament publications began to appear around that same time. Elmer Batters started his own publishing company, circa 1958, with Black Silk Stockings, Sheer Delight and Leg-O-Rama. His influence upon Parliament Publications cannot be overestimated and in circa 1961 they started a line of magazines under the banner of the American Art Agency.

By 1963 Parliament had hired Batters and many of their groundbreaking publications, now classics for collectors, were filled with his photographs and layouts. Soon "from the tip of the toes to the top of the hose" would became synonymous not only with Batters work but with Parliament magazines in general. Here's a selection from the archives.

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PARIS-HOLLYWOOD Undressable Pin-Ups 1950s

April 30, 2014, 1:36 pm
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One of the most important and to a certain degree, most "international" men's magazine of the 1950s and 1960s was Paris-Hollywood, later to be known as Folies de Paris et de Hollywood. An oversized publication from Paris, where each week its readers were treated to a seductive selection of movie stars, busty, voluptuous models and pin-ups all beautifully printed in gravure.

The magazine's editors created very popular features over the years including one of the most delightful of which was a pin-up illustration, a pin-up deshabillable (undressable pin-up) with glassine overlay: dressed/undressed pin-up. Photos from the archives tell it best.

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Fumetti Italian Erotic Comics 1970s~1980s

April 30, 2014, 7:24 pm
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Largely unknown outside of Italy and the world of comic book collecting, the Italian adult, sexually explicit graphic novels, known as fumetto, are quite a surprise coming from a Catholic country where little erotic material has been produced in the modern era. Common themes run through these comics: lesbianism, catwomen, sex machines, female domination, sci-fi sex, vampires, bondage and sado-masochism. 

Titles included here are Jolanka, Jungla, Zordon, Oltretombi, Pussycat, Terror, Jacula, Isabella, Lucifera, Bonnie and Goldrake. Contents are sexually explicit, while simultaneous lacking eroticism.

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Paula Page 1950s Nudes: Bustiest English Model

May 1, 2014, 8:07 am
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Here's a group of photographs of the well endowed English model, Paula Page. One of my favorites models of the era and popular with photographers throughout the 1950s and early 1960s, often posing for the cameras of top photographers, Harrison Marks and Russell Gay. From the archives, this series of seven not previously seen original photographs, depicts Page in the latter days of her modeling career. Photographer unknown.


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PIN-UP Blotters: American Advertising 1930s~1950s

May 1, 2014, 8:11 am
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The American pin-up became popular in advertising starting around the late 1930s for everything from print ads, calendars, matchbooks and playing cards to what became an obsolete desktop accessory with the arrival of the ballpoint pen, the paper ink blotter. The use of pin-ups in advertising was championed mainly by the Brown & Bigelow Agency in Minneapolis. Not only did they sell promotional campaigns to their clients, they also had a stable of artists to create the original artworks. Most notable among the artists working for B&B were Gil Elvgren, Earl Moran and Rolf Armstrong. A selection from deep in the archives.


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BIZARRE LIFE Magazine: Fem/Dom Fetishism S/M 1960s

May 1, 2014, 9:45 am
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Spinning out of the universe of the New York based specialty publishers like Selbee and Burmel came Bizarre Life. The first issue, inspired by both Bizarre and Exotique magazines, was published by Unique Publications in Toronto. The content but was harder edged leaning towards fem/dom photo stories, fantasy articles and illustrations by Eric Stanton and Gene Bilbrew. Issue two came from BiLife Publications in Delaware, which eventually changed to Condolidated Publications. Bizarre Life's "fetish fashions" photographs were greatly influenced by the English magazine Atomage, published by John Sutcliffe. Early issues have contributions that are clearly from Atomage and similar English rubber and leather fetish publications. Here's a taste of the first few issues.

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Sci-Fi + Horror Films: Midi-Minuit Fantastique Paris 1960s Magazine

May 2, 2014, 7:49 am
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In the wake of the success of Famous Monsters of Filmland published in American in 1958, came one of the most important scholarly publications devoted to the fantastic cinema, Midi-Minuit Fantastique (Midday~Midnight Fantastic). Published in Paris by Eric Losfeld starting in 1962 ,the magazine was devoted to all aspects of horror, sci-fi, monster and fantasy films. Created and edited by Michel Caen and Alain Le Bris with the editorial assistance of Jean Boullet and Jean-Claude Romer it remains an important historical and visual reference. Here are the covers, plus random photos, from the first nine issues including the rare and illusive issue number eight devoted to Eroticism and Terror in the English Cinema. Other special issues included Vampires, King Kong, Terrance Fisher and Vamps Fantastique. 


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Kitan Club: Japanese Bondage Magazine 1950s

May 2, 2014, 1:49 pm
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Not previously seen, circa late 1950s Japanese s/m, bondage, fetish and domination publication, Kitan Club magazine. Various images, depicting the particular tastes of the Japanese, from a recently discovered group of five issues. Posting in two parts.

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Kitan Club Part II: Japanese Bondage Magazine 1950s

May 2, 2014, 1:55 pm
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Not previously seen, circa late 1950s Japanese s/m, bondage, fetish and domination publication, Kitan Club magazine. Various images, depicting the particular tastes of the Japanese, from a recently discovered group of five issues. Part two.

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Female Nudes: Nature And Culture of Women 1925

May 3, 2014, 2:51 am
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One of the more elusive photography books published in the 1920s is Peter Landow's Natur un Kultur ~ Das Weib. It appeared in a Germany edition in 1925 and an English edition one year later. It is filled with 120 beautifully printed, large format, sepia toned gravures featuring female nudes from around the world. Contributions by Frantisek Drtikol, Trude Fleischmann, Lotte Herrlich, Emil Otto Hoppe, Germaine Krull, Lehnert & Landrock, Erna Lenvai-Dircksen, Wilhelm von Gloeden and others. It is a bridge between the last days of pictorialism and "the new vision", the era of modernism, just emerging in photography.

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Chinese Nudes: Edle Nacktheit in China 1928

May 3, 2014, 4:19 am
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Another of the great photography books on the body, the female nude, is Heinz von Perckhammer's Edle Nacktheit in China ~ Kunstlerische Aktaufnahmen with 32 fine gravures, published in Berlin,1928. Perckhammer, who travelled to Southern China and Macao in the late 1920s, posed and photographed prostitutes in brothels in a pictorialist, soft-focus style. One of the most beautiful books of the period. My most recent copy of the book was a rare, hard cover edition with yellow tie-binding and yellow and blue covers. 



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PETIT CHOC! Parisian Flappers Flashing 1930s Legs Lingerie

May 3, 2014, 4:49 am
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Petit Choc! was a short lived periodical beautifully printed in toned gravure on a lightly texture art paper, circa 1930~1932. It was filled with marvelously seductive photographs of Parisian flappers raising their skirts showing off lots of leg, lingerie, garter belts and silk stockings. The brainchild of Albert Wyndham (uncredited) well known amongst collectors for his real photo postcards of similar content. Published in Paris by his Le Deux Tourelles company. I have seen five or six issues. Here is a selection from issues one, two and four. Increasingly rare! 

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French Nudes: 1950s Strip-Tease Series Busty Babe

May 5, 2014, 6:14 am
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Seductive, busty French babe strips for the camera, late 1950s on postcard size paper. 

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Sex Spa Rapture Books: Sleaze Paperbacks 1960s

May 5, 2014, 6:30 am
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The early 1960s produced a surge in the publication of "sleaze" paperback books. One of the lesser know publishers was Rapture Books, producing the "finest in adult reading" along with wonderful, comic-book style covers by an unknown illustrator.

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Hollywood Confidential 1956 Sinsational Nudes Strippers

May 5, 2014, 7:26 am
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Top model, Betty Brosmer and her small waist, excentuated by her large breasts, graced the cover of Walter Hale's Hollywood Confidental magazine. Hale, buying into the sensational, "hush hush" style established by Robert Harrison's publications, filled his magazines with photos of nudes, mainly strippers from American's burlesque theaters. This, the first issue?, featured Maxine Martine, Arby Lynn, Evelyn "Treasure Chest" West, Zee Zee Martine and Gay Dawn among others.

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Satin & Lace Premier Issue 1958 Girlie Magazine

May 6, 2014, 7:01 am
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The first issue of the short lived Satin and Lace magazine graced with the marvelous Linda Starr on the cover. "Gags ~ Gals ~ Gaffaws" nudes, strippers, humor and the always tempting "back-of-the-book" advertising; published in San Francisco, 1958.

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