Download or read book French Postcards written by Martin Stevens and published by Universe Publishing(NY). This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long before pin-ups, Playboy, or the Internet, enterprising Parisians at the turn of the 20th-century turned the relatively new invention of the camera toward the female nude. Artfully posed with classical architecture or in flirtatious dishabille with stockings and lingerie, the winking models embody the erotic fantasies of a repressed society. Some of the women shown are demure and shy, wearing a slip or low-cut blouse-a great tease in an age when showing an ankle was scandalous. Their daring glimpses of decolletage carry a particular charge, so rare in today's world of overexposure. These cards were sold, often in packets, at street kiosks and under tabac counters, hush-hush but nevertheless ubiquitous. As foreigners flooded the city in the early part of the 20th-century, the cards became cherished souvenirs that were secretly collected and shared among men abroad. This is when the phrase -French postcards- became a euphemistic code for erotic nude images. These lovely ladies evoke a campy nostalgia that celebrates a healthy, voluptuous ideal of sensual feminine beauty. More retro than raunchy, French Postcards has the saucy fun of a naughty valentine, sure to charm and entertain a friend or lover.
Download or read book Miss Fernande written by Louis La Volpe and published by www.MissFernande.com. This book was released on 2005-10 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty years before Bettie Page became a pinup icon, another beauty was equally celebrated in Europe. Her name was Fernande. While Bettie adorned the pages of men's magazines, Fernande's medium was artistic erotic postcards, which were all the rage at the time. Little is known about the lovely Fernande, not even her last name. Though she is largely forgotten today, her postcards are still collected worldwide by an ardent following. This story follows Fernande's rise to fame, tying together the facts and speculations about the Parisian beauty. Included for your enjoyment is a selection of Miss Fernande's most memorable photographs.
Download or read book French Vintage written by Pamela Vandyke Price and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Paris Pussy French Glamour Girls of the 50s and 60s written by Jean Le Baptiste and published by Creation Books. This book was released on 2009-11-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1950s and 1960s Paris, a host of glamour magazines sprang up featuring voluptuous nude pin-up girls thrust in front of hungry cameras in sleazy backstreet studios. Magazines like Paradise, Sensation and Pink and Black were at the forefront, featuring scores of sexy young amateurs. Paris Pussy presents a stunning array of these vintage photographs, simultaneously taking readers back to the style of more innocent decades and delivering a strong erotic thrill at the rediscovery of these wanton Parisian girls in their sexual prime.
Download or read book Nude Photographs 1850 1980 written by Constance Sullivan and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1980 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Belle poque written by Dominique Kalifa and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The years before the First World War have long been romanticized as a zenith of French culture—the “Belle Époque.” The era is seen as the height of a lost way of life that remains emblematic of what it means to be French. In a vast range of texts and images, it appears as a carefree time full of joie de vivre, fanfare and frills, artistic daring, and scientific innovation. The Moulin Rouge shared the stage with the Universal Exposition, Toulouse-Lautrec rubbed elbows with Marie Curie and La Belle Otero, and Fantômas invented automatic writing. This book traces the making—and the imagining—of the Belle Époque to reveal how and why it became a cultural myth. Dominique Kalifa lifts the veil on a period shrouded in nostalgia, explaining the century-long need to continuously reinvent and even sanctify this moment. He sifts through images handed down in memoirs and reminiscences, literature and film, art and history to explore the many facets of the era, including its worldwide reception. The Belle Époque was born in France, but it quickly went global as other countries adopted the concept to write their own histories. In shedding light on how the Belle Époque has been celebrated and reimagined, Kalifa also offers a nuanced meditation on time, history, and memory.
Download or read book Uncovering Paris written by Lela F. Kerley and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2017-06-07 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1889 to 1914 nude spectacles increased at an astonishing rate as a result of burgeoning artistic experimentation, the commercialization of the female body, and the rise of urban nightlife. In particular, artists’ balls and music halls provided creative spaces in which women, artists, impresarios, and the illustrated press could cast the natural body as a source of sexual pleasure, identity, and reform. Emphasizing the role of erotic entertainment as an outlet and agent of modern sensibilities, Uncovering Paris: Scandals and Nude Spectacles in the Belle Époque offers a fresh approach to important topics of the period—Bohemian artists, the New Woman, and press censorship—and reinterprets them through the lens of la femme nue. Having inherited her name from the pictorial female Nude and the Nude’s real-life counterpart, the artist’s model, la femme nue operated as a screen onto which various groups projected their artistic drives, sexual desires, monetary interests, and cultural anxieties. A struggle to define pornography and art, freedom and censorship, and public and private spheres ensued among artists, theater directors, and moral leagues as a century-long tradition of equating civilization with clothing broke down in the face of performative challenges. In posing, singing, acting, and dancing in naturalist presentations, the artist’s model-turned-erotic entertainer engendered crises in ways of seeing the female body that contributed to and was indicative of a changing moral climate within which women were accorded more freedom to corporeally express themselves. Once denigrated and denounced as a sign of vulgar working-class sexuality, the revelation of female flesh became an integral aspect of twentieth-century French body culture. Drawing upon a range of colorful commentaries, dramatic debates, and evocative photos, Lela F. Kerley highlights the importance of nudity in the redrawing of moral boundaries as she uncovers key moments that amounted to a “culture war” in the years leading up to World War I. Through an investigation of street riots, court cases, and anti-pornography campaigns, Uncovering Paris offers an interdisciplinary approach to the scholarship on Belle Époque sexual politics and a rich glimpse into the social construction of morality in Belle Époque France.
Download or read book The Renaissance Nude written by Thomas Kren and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2018-11-20 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gloriously illustrated examination of the origins and development of the nude as an artistic subject in Renaissance Europe Reflecting an era when Europe looked to both the classical past and a global future, this volume explores the emergence and acceptance of the nude as an artistic subject. It engages with the numerous and complex connotations of the human body in more than 250 artworks by the greatest masters of the Renaissance. Paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, illuminated manuscripts, and book illustrations reveal private, sometimes shocking, preoccupations as well as surprising public beliefs—the Age of Humanism from an entirely new perspective. This book presents works by Albrecht Dürer, Lucas Cranach, and Martin Schongauer in the north and Donatello, Raphael, and Giorgione in the south; it also introduces names that deserve to be known better. A publication this rich in scholarship could only be produced by a variety of expert scholars; the sixteen contributors are preeminent in their fields and wide-ranging in their knowledge and curiosity. The structure of the volume—essays alternating with shorter texts on individual artworks—permits studies both broad and granular. From the religious to the magical and the poetic to the erotic, encompassing male and female, infancy, youth, and old age, The Renaissance Nude examines in a profound way what it is to be human.
Download or read book written by and published by Graphic-Sha Publishing Company, Limited. This book was released on 2000-03-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In keeping with the current retro chic boom, French pin-up girl images of the 50's and 60's have become highly sought after both for their bent toward eroticism and as inspiration for today's photographers. Proliferating during the heyday of nude and glamour magazines, these images were precursors to the coming changes in societal mores and sexual expression. This book is the second of two volumes assembled by noted Japanese editor and art director Makoto Orui; and like its predecessor, L'Amour: French Glamour Girls, Venus presents us with an intriguing look at the sensual side of postwar French culture. These are subtle yet powerfully erotic photographs, alluring in their quiet, daylight settings and classically posed models, whose aura lies in their natural, imperfect beauty -- a beauty that has mostly been disregarded by the narrow standards of today's mainstream aesthetic. This fascinating and exquisitely reproduced book features over 150 photographs by artists from different countries, as well as a special jacket designed as a pin-up.
Download or read book Art Models 6 written by Maureen Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether trying a new technique, getting in some practice time, or working on a finished piece, this figure study enables artists to create their choice of model, pose, and view whenever and wherever they'd like. The latest addition to the series will help artists become proficient in incorporating chiaroscuro or light and dark lighting?a technique used by the great masters to produce drama and depth in their paintings?to define the human form. Additional expressions and body details highlighting challenging areas such as the face, hands, and feet in even greater detail augment the disc. Varieties of body types?ranging from thin to plus-size?and ethnicities are included. Poses have been carefully chosen to illustrate important effects such as foreshortening and perspective changes. With this guide, artists can achieve longer drawing sessions than they could when drawing from a model directly. While viewing from many angles and at their own pace is often impossible for artists in a studio session, it becomes as easy as putting in the disc and opening any photo. A judicious amount of photo retouching is done?not to make the models more glamorous or plastic but to remove distractions that detract from the models' essence. The PC/Mac-compatible DVD-ROM features more than 2,500 high-resolution JPEG photos providing a number of viewing options?on a computer screen, printed out, projected for a group, or via a high-definition television. Each angle of every pose may also be enlarged, enabling artists to zoom in on specific body parts to achieve a higher level of detail.
Download or read book Vintage Beauty written by Nico B and published by . This book was released on 2018-11-15 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Artists have explored the nude image since the beginning of time, through sculpture, ink, and paint on canvas, and celebrated the female form in all its natural beauty. Photography is no stranger to this since its arrival. We hereby present an archive of rare glamour photography from the 1900s until the 1960s.
Download or read book Sultry Daddy 35 Explicit Romance Stories to Stoke Your Fire written by Wendy Mack and published by Sweet Nothings Publishing. This book was released on with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indulge in the tantalizing world of romance with Sultry Daddy - 35 Explicit Romance Stories to Stoke Your Fire. Experience a rollercoaster of emotions as you immerse yourself in tales of desire, devotion, and decadence. Each story is carefully crafted to ignite the flames of passion within you, transporting you to realms where love knows no bounds and where every heartbeat resonates with intensity. With Sultry Daddy, you'll find yourself captivated by an array of diverse characters and scenarios that will leave you breathless. Whether it's a steamy encounter between long-lost lovers or a forbidden romance set in an exotic locale, these 35 stories promise to evoke intense emotions that will keep you turning pages late into the night. Prepare to be swept away by the allure of seduction and experience the thrill of being consumed by love's fiery embrace. This collection is not just about fleeting moments; it's about immersing yourself in a world where passion reigns supreme. With Sultry Daddy , you'll relish every pulse-pounding moment as each story unfolds, leaving an indelible mark on your heart.
Download or read book France is a Feast written by Katherine Pratt and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the coauthor of My Life in France, a revealing collection of photographs taken by Paul Child that document his and Julia Child’s years in France Through intimate and compelling photographs taken by her husband Paul Child, a gifted photographer, France is a Feast documents how Julia Child first discovered French cooking and the French way of life. Paul and Julia moved to Paris in 1948 where he was cultural attaché for the US Information Service, and in this role he met Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa, Brassai, and other leading lights of the photography world. As Julia recalled: “Paris was wonderfully walkable, and it was a natural subject for Paul.” Their wanderings through the French capital and countryside, frequently photographed by Paul, would help lead to the classic Mastering the Art of French Cooking, and Julia’s brilliant and celebrated career in books and on television. Though Paul was an accomplished photographer (his work is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art), his photographs remained out of the public eye until the publication of Julia’s memoir, My Life in France, in which several of his images were included. Now, with more than 200 of Paul’s photographs and personal stories recounted by his great-nephew Alex Prud’homme, France is a Feast not only captures this magical period in Paul and Julia’s lives, but also brings to light Paul Child’s own remarkable photographic achievement.
Download or read book Glamour Girls of Paris written by Stephen Pentacoste and published by Glamour Girls. This book was released on 2016-07-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late 1950s and 1960s, erotic nude photography became increasingly prevalent in the civilized world, with European countries such as Denmark and France leading the way with increasingly daring and artistic publications. GLAMOUR GIRLS OF PARIS contains over 120 stunning and provocative photographs from vintage French erotic magazines at the forefront of classic pictorial erotica. The first volume of "Glamour Girls", a new series of high-quality, vintage erotic photography publications showcasing the most voluptuous girls from around the world.
Download or read book 1000 Nudes written by Michael Koetzle and published by Taschen America Llc. This book was released on 2005 with total page 575 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TASCHEN's 25th anniversary - Special edition! ""Fascinating for what it tells us about the history of body images and social codes."" -The Independent, London
Download or read book milie Charmy written by Matthew Affron and published by Fralin Museum of Art, University of Virginia. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first U.S. retrospective of the painting of Émilie Charmy, Affron surveys key phases of Charmy's artistic career in relation to major issues in modern French painting and Betzer examines two principal subjects of Charmy's early work, the nude and the bourgeois interior, as evidence of an ambitious dialogue with avant-garde precedent.
Download or read book Doodaaa written by Ralph Steadman and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2003-11-01 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'An extraordinary mixture of autobiography, satirical art history and unhinged comedy.'- Independent on Sunday (UK)
