Dian Hanson's: The History of Men's Magazines. Vol. 4: 1960s Under the Counter

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Condition
Like New: A book in excellent condition. Cover is shiny and undamaged, and the dust jacket is ...
Era
1960s
Signed
No
ISBN
9783836592376
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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Taschen
ISBN-10
3836592371
ISBN-13
9783836592376
eBay Product ID (ePID)
25057275936

Product Key Features

Book Title
Dian Hanson's: the History of Men's Magazines. Vol. 4: 1960s under the Counter
Number of Pages
460 Pages
Language
Multiple Languages
Topic
Subjects & Themes / Erotica, Popular Culture, Graphic Arts / Illustration
Publication Year
2023
Genre
Design, Art
Author
Dian Hanson
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1.3 in
Item Weight
73.7 Oz
Item Length
10.9 in
Item Width
8.4 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
Reviews
...approaches men's magazines with a historical lens and also tracks the wider societal changes alongside their evolution.
Dewey Edition
23
Volume Number
Vol. 4
Dewey Decimal
302.232408109046
Edition Description
Multilanguage edition
Synopsis
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 men's 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 , Elmer's 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 Burtman's 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 they'd 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., Between 1959 and 1969 "under the counter" magazines, with more explicit and quirky content, appeared in the U.S. and Europe. Meet California's King of Magazines, leg man Elmer Batters, bondage master Irving Klaw, England's 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 men's 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, Elmer's 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 Burtman's 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 they'd 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.
LC Classification Number
PN4836

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