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Creators: Dian Hanson (Edited by)
Publisher: TASCHEN
ISBN: 9783836592376
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 460 pages
On Sale Date: 12/6/2022
Dimensions: 11.2 in H | 8.7 in W | 1.3 in T | 4.6 lb Wt
Between 1959 and 1969 under the counter magazines, with more explicit and quirky content, appeared in the U.S. and Europe. Meet Californias King of Magazines, leg man Elmer Batters, bondage master Irving Klaw, Englands Harrison Marks, and learn how Scandinavia killed censorship in 650+ covers and interiors.
In 1958 Milton Luros left his New York job designing and illustrating detective pulp magazines for North Hollywood, California. A year later, with a loan from an underworld figure, he founded a publishing empire that revolutionized mens magazines in the 1960s. His so-called California slicks borrowed bad-girl themes from pre-Playboy burlesque titles, featuring big hair, heavy make-up, cigarettes, and cocktails, but in west coast mid-century settings with better photography, paper, and printing. With no redeeming articles, they were too strong for newsstands, but outsold Playboy in tobacco shops and specialty bookstores.
Californian Elmer Batters invented leg art photography the same year, with titles Black Silk Stockings, Leg-O-Rama, Tip Top, Elmers Naked Jungle and more. Back in New York, Irving Klaw introduced fetish digests in the same specialty bookstores, leading to a 60s fetish boom, with Lenny Burtmans High Heels, Satana, Striparama, and Leg Show. A simultaneous uptick in sexploitation films spawned sexploitation film magazines, including Blazing Films and Banned.
Sixties freedom spread to England too, where George Harrison Marks launched Kamera and Solo magazines with totally naked models posed to barely hide the banned bits, inventing top shelf titles: those not on public display. And lastly, up north, Swedish Sin was coined, with the first magazines challenging European censorship; a challenge theyd soon win.
Volume 4 in this series contains over 650 ground-breaking covers and photos from the U.S., England, and Sweden with descriptive text.
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