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Summary: Really, an amazing bargain
Review: As an earlier reviewer pointed out, there are problems with image oversizing (but, to my mind, it's not a significant problem). I would also say that too much space is devoted to reproducing the covers (some of which are identical) and not enough space given over to those wacky and surprisingly still erotic photo spreads. It's also true that this is a reprint of another Taschen book, but this time it comes with hard cover and glossy pages (as opposed to the hard-cardboard backs and pulpy pages of the original). This book is practically being given away at this price and while I might have made different editorial choices, I am very happy with this book as is.
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Summary: Covers of Classic Pin-up girls! This is a great reference!
Review: If you like pin-up girls and the 40's and 50's style pictures. This is the book to get! It is filled cover to cover with amazing art work. There are a variety of artists shown. The art varies from movie posters to pulp fiction book covers and magazine covers. I have never found a book with such a great range, as I said a real resource for fans of pin-up girl art.
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Summary: Should have been a lot better.
Review: Reading the review from a reader in Seattle I wonder if I have the same book. My 'American Girlie Magazines' is about Robert Harrison and his pulp girlie titles Beauty Parade, Eyeful, Titter, Wink, Whisper and Flirt. They were published between 1942 and 1958 and the contents mostly showed black and white photos of scantily clad ladies (Harrison did not approve of nudity) in slapstick situations...all very tame by todays standards. The book reproduces covers and spreads from these magazines.The contents of these magazines are basically trash but they do have one thing of interest, their covers, these were paintings rather than photos. Pin-up artist Peter Driben painted hundreds of covers for the six titles and dozens are shown in this book, some other pin-up artists are included as well. Before you rush out and buy the book you need to know that all the covers and the spreads have been sized sligthly bigger than the book. This does not matter too much with the reproduced spreads but all the covers have been ruined because of this enlargement, the title logos and coverlines run of the side of the page. Two better Taschen cheesecake titles are 'The Rottenberg Collection', seven hundred pages of American pin-ups (mostly nudes) from the forties to the sixties from the collection of Mark Rottenberg. European pin-ups are covered in 'Serge Jacques' by Gilles Neret. Both these titles are far superior to 'American Girlie Magazines'
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