Irving Klaw Photographs: Pinup, Burlesque and Fetish

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Leave the cutesy kid stuff behind. I specialize in bringing out the allure and sensuality in my female subjects. Lana Turner, Ava Gardner, Rita Hayworth, Eartha Kitt. Those weren't little girls playing dress up but REAL WOMEN who knew how to use what their mammas gave 'em!

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Yeager was a very prolific and successful pinup photographer in the 1950s and 1960s, so much so, that her work was described as ubiquitous in that era. She continued to work extensively with Playboy shooting eight centerfolds in addition to covers and pictorial spreads. She discovered Lisa Winters, the first Playmate of the Year. Yeager also appeared in the magazine as a model five times. One appearance with the headline, "Queen of the Playboy Centerfolds", was photographed by Hugh Hefner. In New York she drifted innocently into modeling, posing for camera clubs. That beautiful smile "suggested forbidden fruit as well as apple pie," said PLAYBOY. The charm, the appeal, the danger, the allure of those sensational photos is beyond what words can convey.

Biography

I like being outdoors. I like to go cavorting in the nude in the forests. It is just another world. To take sunbaths in the nude." Some instances that Seves cites are not quite so convincing: if Ditko did them, he did them by dutifully imitating his studio-mate’s mannerisms to the extent that his own disappear. Or so it seems to me, but I’m scarcely a Ditko expert. 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. Her attitude, her eyes, that's the most important, the steam that rises from them. That's the most important thing to me. She has magic. Some people have it."

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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. 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. 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!). Bettie was born in 1923 in Nashville, Tennessee, and rose to fame in the 1950s for her swimwear and fetish modeling.Known as the 'Queen of Pinups,' her measurements have been reported as the impossible sounding 36-23-35 (bust-waist-hips, in inches), making her the stuff of post-World War II era dreams. For the most part, people either lusted after her or wanted to be her and she has been attributed with helping to usher in the sexual revolution of the 1960s. In the early 1980s Movie Star News moved to 134 West 18th Street to avoid rising rents on 14th street. [10] 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. A photograph of an attractive middle-aged woman we determine is Stanton’s mother only because the text nearby is about her. While his career waned with the coming of relaxed censorship laws of the 1960s, his substance abuse worsened in the early 1970s.

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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]Fine – As near to a new copy as you are going to get, looks like it’s just been lifted of the newsagents shelf. Seves quotes Ditko about the full-face mask: “I did it because it hid [Peter Parker’s] obviously boyish face. It would also add mystery to the character and allow the reader/viewer the opportunity to visualize, to ‘draw,’ his own preferred expression Peter Parker’s face and, perhaps, become the personality behind the mask.” THE SAME YEAR that he and Grace separated, Stanton joined Ditko in a studio at 276 W. 43rd Street and revived the camaraderie of their C&IS days. The studio was bare bones. “It was a room about ten feet by twenty,” said Stanton. “One side was all windows. Steve’s desk and mine faced each other next to the window.” Klaw always went to great pains to make sure his photographs contained no nudity, which would make the material pornographic and hence illegal to sell via mail. Models were often required to wear two pairs of panties so that no pubic hair could be seen. [8]

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You were likely considered more of a pervert for wanting to see this material rather than images of standard heterosexual intercourse,” says Rhody. 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. It makes me feel wonderful that people still care for me... that I have so many fans among young people, who write to me and tell me I have been an inspiration." Wrote Amber: “My father contributed to the costume, the idea of the web shooting out of Spider-Man's wrist, and the movement which he made with his hands to release the web. ... I still remember my father's beautiful, strong, broad hands as he showed me the movement that makes Spider-Man's web release from his wrist. It was just like my dad to come up with something like that. If you knew my father it would make sense that he had a hand in Spider-Man.” 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.

Notes

Ditko, asked years later how he and Stanton met, said, “I liked the way he drew women.” More about their relationship anon. 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 fact, while Stanton usually denied having influenced Ditko’s conception of Spider-Man—“Steve doesn’t like me to talk about him,” he told Theakston, “my contribution to Spider-Man was almost nil”— he sometimes admitted that the web-shooter idea was his. Says Seves: “One could only imagine how gratifying Ditko’s presence must have been to Stanton after his time with Grace; from being around someone who was repulsed by art to being around someone whose very waking moment was consumed by it. ‘There were times Steve would spend twenty hours straight doing a comic,’ Stanton remembered. She was happy. She was exhilarated being out there and just having a lot of fun and taking a good photograph, that fabulous torso, and that cute, little, pert, pixie, frisky face, the girl next door."