Irving Klaw Photographs: Pinup, Burlesque and Fetish

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Michigan's own Klaw Mark Kittens take an "artistic" approach to catfighting, dressing up like vintage pinups and making the fights a part of set scenarios, such as a woman in a bumblebee dress start grappling with a woman wearing a flower hat. And the back cover of the magazine featured the full-figure portrait of a “kinky lion tamer” wearing an eye-mask the shape of which was echoed in Spider-Man’s eye-mask. The book’s only scholarly flaw is Seves’ failure to caption the illustrations; they are usually explained in the adjacent text, but you have to look hard for it. She remembered watching with the family the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade on tv when she was nine years old.

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Celebrating the Bizarre Underground, pre-1971 ~ with minor forays into contemporary retro-vintage style.

Because Bettie Page was and remains an underground phenomenon, a puzzling "bad girl next door" cult figure - sort of our collective guilty pleasure. Pointing to the Kirby sketch, Ditko might have disparaged the web gun Kirby’s character was brandishing: “That idea is old. She was the best model because she not only had perfect facial features, but a great body and wasn't ashamed to show it. Afterwards, when the show begins, Page separates the acts by showing placards with the names of the acts.

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En 1955 recibió el título de Miss Pinup Girl of the World y en enero de ese año se convirtió en la Playmate del mes de enero en la recién nacida revista Playboy, cuyo director, Hugh Hefner, se convirtió en uno de los mayores benefactores de Page hasta hoy en día. Background music and narration were added to the silent fetish loops for the two-volume video Irving Klaw Bondage Classics (1984) by London Enterprises. Charles Guyette: Godfather of American Fetish Art [*Expanded Photo Edition*] by Richard Pérez Seves. Paula’s son Ira printed the photos, using his mom’s original 1950s negatives, and gave them to his mother to mail to Keefe.

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.