1000 PIN-UP GIRLS

"Girls, Gags & Giggles," ran publisher Robert Harrison's recipe for dishing up pin-up to the American male. While other magazines delivered the girl next door, Harrison's publications banked on bad girls in satin and leather, fishnet stockings, and six-inch heels performing slapstick stunts straight from the burlesque stage. In the 1950s his girlie magazines sold by the millions, before becoming icons of pulp culture. These skilfully illustrated girls with their curvaceous forms and inviting lingerie soon overtook America's national dessert, in terms of popularity. Men loved his tasty dishes, a mixture of strippers and starlets dressed in outfits so fetishistic no one noticed they were never nude. Harrison lured his readers in with vibrantly painted covers by top pin-up artists Earl Moran, Billy DeVorss and, most famously, Peter Driben. This Taschen edition celebrates this eye-catching candy with every single cover from Beauty Parade, Wink, Titter, Eyeful, Flirt and Whisper from 1942 to 1955, as well as interior spreads, featuring, among others, a budding lovely named Bettie Page. They were the 'girls next door' whose rosy complexions and innocent allures still titillate and fuel your erotic imagination. 14 x 19.5cm, 544 pages. Text in English, French and German. Pagemarker.
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