World Famous Comics: Playboy: Fifty Years : The Photographs
Playboy: Fifty Years : The Photographs
By: James R. Petersen Average Rating: Binding: Hardcover Format: Bargain Price Number of Items: 1 Number of Pages: 239 Publication Date: November 01, 2003
Product Description: 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. Playboy: 50 Years revisits the girl next door, the sex symbols, and the gods and goddesses who shaped our culture. 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. Portfolios devoted to 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 breath-taking photographic tour de force. The definitive gift of the season, Playboy: 50 Years is also the only book being published in the fall to coincide with the launch of the magazine's 50th anniversary.
Excellent This book is excellent. The photos really define the genre and are more an indication of the history of art,fashion, clothing, status symbols and items relevant to various times in the last fifty years rather than photos of nude or scantily clad attractive women. I have given copies of this book to a number of friends and the general comments I receive are "what a wonderful gift". I consider the book artistic rather than very soft porn. A wonderful book whether you keep or give someone an excellent gift
Perfect Item I purchased this as a gift for my husband and he absolutely loves it. The book is done very tastefully and it's truly a work of art.
Fifty years of memories and coming of age I think I saw my first playboy at my friends house, his Dad had every issue since the fifties and I fell in love with the girl next door. I remember even then that the photography of playboy was somehow different from the other magazines such as Life and Look. I enjoyed this book so much that I bought three copies for friends who also lived those playboy years!
Not bad, but not worth buying. "Playboy The Photographs" wasn't a bad book, it just wasn't good enough to buy. My recommendation is to look at it at a book store and save yourself the money. Check out "The Playboy Book" and "Inside The Playboy Mansion". These were vastly superior books compared to the "Photographs".
Pictures of Pictures For a photographic book, i was expecting better quality pictures. To me, most of the pictures look like "pictures of pictures". if you expect the high quality crisp images and excellent color quality images of Playboy, i think you will be disappointed. I am.
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