Jim Peterson PLAYBOY 50 YEARS THE PHOTOGRAPHS First Edition
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Jim Peterson PLAYBOY 50 YEARS THE PHOTOGRAPHS First Edition
First US edition, second print hardback of PLAYBOY 50 YEARS: THE PHOTOGRAPHS. Text by Jim Peterson, published by Chronicle Books LLC., in 2003. With full numberline 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 on the copyright page. Coffee table book.The book is in very good condition (Clean golden boards with white lettering on front and spine) with only slight wear to the illustrated dust jacket, which is not price clipped (minor creasing to the edges mainly around the spine, with minor rubbing and a one inch closed tear to top spine corner). Internally, the pages are very clean and tight and there are no tears and no inscriptions.
Playboy celebrates its 50th anniversary with this lavish collection of the very best of the magazine's photography. More than 250 full-color photographs, chosen from the ten million images preserved in the Playboy archive, chronicle five decades of brilliant, life-affirming art. It visually tracks the changing politics, fashions, and mores through the frenzied peak of the sexual revolution and beyond - from the almost nostalgic eroticism of the 50s bachelor, a martini his secret of seduction, to the highly charged images of modern sexuality. Celebrity models such as Raquel Welch and Cindy Crawford, along with interview subjects such as Mohammed Ali and Salvador Dali, and infamous bunnies such as Anna Nicole Smith and Pamela Anderson reveal all.
The text by Jim Peterson, former editor of "The Playboy Advisor" column and is a longtime employee of.
"With the very first issue of Playboy, Hugh Hefner issued a challenge to photographers: Forget everything you know. The future begins now. If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, we will show the world how to see.
For fifty years the magazine has stood by that initial challenge. With the Playmate, Hefner created a cultural icon. But the same vision translated into groundbreaking photo-journalism, sophisticated cover design, freewheeling erotic fantasies, intimate portraits, and gleaming lifestyle features.
Now, one volume encompasses the full range of that vision. More than 250 full-color photographs, chosen from the ten million images preserved in the Playboy archive, chronicle five decades of brilliant, life-affirming art. Playboy: 50 Years revisits the girl next door, the sex symbols, and the gods and goddesses who shaped our culture. Photographs showcasing the bachelor pad, the perfect cocktail, fashion, and sports cars celebrate Playboy as the ultimate wish book. From the history-making red velvet shot of Marilyn Monroe, "posed with nothing on except the radio," to the highly charged images of such masters as Herb Ritts and Helmut Newton, this book is a breathtaking photographic tour de force."
239 pages. Illustrated with full page colour photographs throughout.
NOTE: This is a heavy book, weighing around 1800 grams.
ISBN: 0 8118 3978 8
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