Irving Klaw Photographs: Pinup, Burlesque and Fetish

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I’m not interested in these images as burlesque or fetish ephemera,” Rhody notes. “Taken out of their context after 70 years, they’re not even that pornographic. No more-so than your average television commercial.” Rhody also noticed other “slightly odd elements” in the images, “like women who had huge or multiple pairs of underwear on, which I didn’t understand at first.” It is estimated that Irving Klaw burned over 80% of his photos when the government went after him as a pornographer in the early 60's. I am not sure who owns the rights to his photos now, but these are from a flood on the Usenet and the quality was just too good not to share. In knowing what was once done to such artists, it gives us all the more reason to fight to keep freedom on the net. -- http://www.cuffs.com/submission/klaw/default.html [Nov 2005] Because of the political and social pressure Irving Klaw faced, he eventually quit the business, burning his negatives when he went. (It is estimated that more than 80% of the negatives were destroyed). Paula Klaw secretly kept in her possession some of the better images that we are still enjoying today. Irving Klaw had an unusually close relationship with his sister Paula. The story of Irving and his business has primarily been told through her anecdotes. Paula often ran the front end of the store, but when Klaw began to produce his own photographs and films, Paula befriended the models, often treating them as her own daughters. When another photographer wasn't available, she would grab the camera and shoot the photos. In 1963, in an attempt to satisfy the courts, Irving destroyed his photographs and movies, Paula, unbeknownst to her brother, preserved his legacy – and her financial future – by hiding thousands of the images. After her brother's death, she became fiercely protective of his reputation and his work. Without Paula's foresight, Irving Klaw might have been just an odd, barely remembered footnote in the annals of pin-up history and Fifties puritanism. [9] Closing [ edit ]

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In the early 1980s Movie Star News moved to 134 West 18th Street to avoid rising rents on 14th street. [10] If you're at all a fan of fetish art ... then this book will be right up your alley." — kinkweekly.com Through his production company Nutrix Co. (and later also Mutrix Corp), Klaw also published and distributed illustrated adventure/bondage serials by fetish artists Eric Stanton, Gene Bilbrew, Adolfo Ruiz and others. In February of 1983, Harmony released what it supposed was the last of its Irving Klaw magazines the ninth in the series. It seemed evident that the vast archive of Klaw material had at that point been exhausted. Irving Klaw died Labor Day weekend, 1966 due to complictions from an untreated appendicitis. He was survived by two sons, Arthur and Jeffrey. -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Klaw [Jun 2005]Pratt, Douglas (2004). Doug Pratt's DVD: Movies, Television, Music, Art, Adult, and More!. New York: Harbor Electronic Pub. ISBN 978-1-932916-00-3. Charles Guyette: Godfather of American Fetish Art [*Expanded Photo Edition*] by Richard Pérez Seves. New York: FetHistory, 2018. ISBN 978-1973773771 Not so, as it turns out. Thanks to the generosity of two gentlemen a “Manhattanite” and an upstate New Yorker- Harmony has been infused with a large number of Klaw photos that we haven’t seen published before. These photos make up the bulk of this 10th Irving Klaw magazine. I sift through thousands of, let’s say, old tourist photos to find the ones slightly off, ones that have a compositional framework that’s more interesting in a fine art context,” he explains. You were likely considered more of a pervert for wanting to see this material rather than images of standard heterosexual intercourse,” says Rhody.

A Moral Legacy in Vintage Pinups: The Klaw Archives

Starting March 12, a collection of vintage and unadulterated pinups from the Klaws will go on view at No Name Cinema, a fiercely independent microcinema and exhibition space committed to the experimental and avant-garde.Klaw also published and distributed illustrated adventure/bondage serials by fetish artists Eric Stanton, Gene Bilbrew, Adolfo Ruiz and others. While we can only rely on hearsay and the remnants of a mostly lost archive, the legacy of the Klaws remains largely positive. Still, such charged imagery is bound to divide some viewers, even today. Perhaps the printed program featuring commissioned essays from artist, writer and educator Courtney Fellion of the San Francisco State University School of Cinema and Albuquerque-based writer and artist Delaney Hoffman will help contextualize the exhibition. After the Senate hearings and the ensuing legal difficulties with state authorities, Klaw was barred from continuing his business in New York. Shortly thereafter he moved his Nutrix Publishing Company, along with the associated Satellite Publications (Stanley Malkin & Pat Martini), to an office building in Jersey City, New Jersey. Both companies sold similar fetish-oriented photos and magazines.

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They’re neat time capsules of both the era and the initial, limited, and discreet method of distribution of this type of material,” says No Name Cinema founder and exhibition organizer Justin Clifford Rhody. “Exhibiting them by hanging them on a wall is taking them out of their original intended context, which was for private, personal viewing.” Teaserama is a 1955 American low-budget sexploitation film directed by Irving Klaw. It follows the performance of a burlesque show. Inspired by John Willie, [12] Klaw also commissioned and distributed illustrated adventure/bondage chapter serials by fetish artists Eric Stanton, Gene Bilbrew, Adolfo Ruiz, and others. There are peripheral elements, things that may have been cropped out,” Rhody continues. “You can sometimes see beyond the bondage equipment and notice a domestic setting, like a kitchen with some old beer bottles on the stovetop, for example.”J.B. Rund, The Adventures of Sweet Gwendoline (Second Edition, Revised & Enlarged) New York: Bélier Press, 1999. p. 92. The family business, which eventually became Movie Star News, began in 1938 when Klaw and his sister Paula opened a struggling used bookstore at 209 East 14th Street in Manhattan. Mitchell, Tony (2018). "Eric Stanton and the History of the Bizarre Underground". The Fetishistas. Archived from the original on December 5, 2018 . Retrieved December 4, 2018. His family business, Movie Star News, started as a magazine store. Due to customer demand, he and his sister Paula started selling bondage and fetish photos using burlesque dancers like Baby Lake, Tempest Storm, and Blaze Starr as models. Very few of Klaw's photographs featured any nudity. Kefauver was born in Madisonville, Tennessee and attended the University of Tennessee and Yale University. He was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1939 to 1949. He served in the United States Senate from 1949 to his death in 1963. -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estes_Kefauver [Jun 2005]

Women Behaving Badly: 3 exploitation films, catfights etc. Women Behaving Badly: 3 exploitation films, catfights etc.

Movie Star News' pin-up collection to be auctioned off as famed store closes". NY Daily News . Retrieved 26 August 2014. This public domain clip was rescued from oblivion by Something Weird Video and released on "Bizarro Sex Loops #20" Amusing scenes from 3 public domain exploitation and horror films. "Slaves in Bondage" (1937) has specialty fetish prostitutes rough-housing and spanking each other, "The Brain That Wouldn't Die" (1962) and "Horrors of Spider Island" (1960) feature cat fighting biotches (meow!). He and Paula, who actually posed and took most of the photos, started selling bondage and fetish photos using burlesque dancers like Baby Lake, Tempest Storm, and Blaze Starr as models. Klaw always went to great pains to make sure his photographs contained no sex acts or nudity, which would have made the material pornographic and hence illegal to sell via mail. Klaw was born Isadore Klaw [7] in Brooklyn, New York. His business, which eventually became Movie Star News, began in 1938 [8] when he and his sister Paula opened a struggling basement level used bookstore at 209 E. 14th St. in Manhattan.This section does not cite any sources. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( January 2019) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) The film was directed by Irving Klaw, who was known for producing bondage photographs for distribution through the mail. [1] Redheaded burlesque dancer Tempest Storm was cast for the leading role. [2] Eric Stanton& the History of the Bizarre Underground by Richard Pérez Seves. Atglen: Schiffer Publishing, 2018. ISBN 978-0764355424 Fine – As near to a new copy as you are going to get, looks like it’s just been lifted of the newsagents shelf. Out-of-context is precisely where Rhody finds their charm. His curatorial tendencies lean toward the found photographic object; the re-contextualized, or appropriated image.