Playboy: The Complete Centerfolds, 1953-2016

Playboy: The Complete Centerfolds, 1953-2016
Author:
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017-09-05
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 9781452161037

With the first centerfold image of the radiant Marilyn Monroe, Hugh M. Hefner masterminded a cultural icon: Playboy's Playmate of the Month. This voluptuous new edition celebrates every nude centerfold from every issue of Playboy, from 1953 to February 2016. Initially published a decade ago, and now comprehensively updated, this must-have edition boasts 734 nude centerfolds and decade openers from literary luminaries, including an all-new essay by Elizabeth Wurtzel on the last decade of centerfolds, and a redesigned package that perfectly captures the complete cultural and aesthetic arc of the Playboy centerfold. With contributions by: - Robert Coover - Paul Theroux - Robert Stone - Jay McInerney - Daphne Merkin - Maureen Gibbon - Elizabeth Wurtzel

Playboy: The Complete Centerfolds

Playboy: The Complete Centerfolds
Author:
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Total Pages: 740
Release: 2015-12-15
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 1452144729

Following the remarkable success of the 50th year anniversary edition, we're pleased to present Playboy: Centerfolds, 60th Anniversary Edition. The content remains the same—every Centerfold from every issue. That's over 600 beauties with additional Centerfolds through the present to make this Playboy's most complete photographic volume to date. Hefner introduces the book and literary luminaries including Paul Theroux, Jay McInerney, and Daphne Merkin comment on the social mores and cultural climate of each decade. This chronological collection provides an unparalleled view of our evolving appreciation of the female form: from the fifties fantasy of voluptuous blondes to the tawny beach girls of the seventies to the groomed and toned women of today. Playboy: Centerfolds, 60th Anniversary Edition is a breathtaking tour de force.

The Playboy Book

The Playboy Book
Author: Gretchen Edgren
Publisher: Taschen America Llc
Total Pages: 368
Release: 1998
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9783822876466

Centerfolds

Centerfolds
Author: Charlotte Kemp
Publisher:
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2015-07-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781633931626

Centerfolds is the comprehensive collection of stories from the iconic women of PlayboyTM Magazine as told by the real girls next door and the photographers who made them famous. Charlotte Kemp was Playboy's Miss December 1982 and Playboy's cover model October, 1983, also appearing in many ads and calendar photos for Playboy. She was the first Playmate ever given a License for "The Playboy Running Team" in 1993 and had 10 Playmates on the team who successfully raised money for many charities. Her first book was For My Eyes Only, which includes poetry, prose and short stories. During her working years with Playboy she had the first title of "Miss Budweiser," "The Best Breasts in the USA" and has several commercials and movies she has starred and appeared in, including a top 25 B Horror films of all time, "Frankenhooker." She has appeared on Inside Editon, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, and many radio and regional radio shows all over the country. She has appeared in fourteen foreign editions of Playboy and lived for a period of time at the Playboy Mansion.

The Playmate Book

The Playmate Book
Author: Gretchen Edgren
Publisher: Taschen America Llc
Total Pages: 472
Release: 2005
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9783822848241

In celebration of Playboy magazine's 50th anniversary, TASCHEN brings you this ultimate Playboy tribute featuring each and every Playmate of the Month since issue number one. Beginning with Marilyn Monroe herself and including such favorites as Pamela Anderson, Anna Nicole Smith, and Jenny McCarthy, this chronological look at the history of Playboy centerfolds includes photos of the Playmates as well as updated personal information about their lives to this day - just enough to spark your memory or pique your interest and surely leaving you yearning for more...

Playboy and the Making of the Good Life in Modern America

Playboy and the Making of the Good Life in Modern America
Author: Elizabeth Fraterrigo
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2009
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0199832455

In exploring the history of America's most widely read and influential men's magazine, Elizabeth Fraterrigo hones in on the values, style, and gender formulations put forth in its pages and how they gained widespread currency in American culture.

Hugh Hefner's Playboy

Hugh Hefner's Playboy
Author: Hugh M. Hefner
Publisher: Taschen America Llc
Total Pages: 3506
Release: 2009
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 9783822826133

Hefner presents an illustrated, chronological selection of highlights from "Playboy" magazine's first 25 years.

Gahan Wilson

Gahan Wilson
Author: Gahan Wilson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2009
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Gahan Wilson is among the most popular, widely-read and beloved cartoonists in the history of the medium, whose career spans the second half of the 20th century. His work has been seen by hundreds of millions of people in the pages of Playboy, The New Yorker, Punch, The National Lampoon and many other magazines. He is revered for his playfully sinister take on childhood, adulthood, men, women - and monsters. This three-volume set contains every cartoon Wilson ever drew for Playboy, along with all his prose fiction and text-and-art features.

Playboy: Helmut Newton

Playboy: Helmut Newton
Author: Helmut Newton
Publisher: Chronicle Books (CA)
Total Pages: 186
Release: 2005-08-18
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Following "Playboy's" celebrated 50th anniversary "Photographs" and "Cartoons" comes an arresting retrospective of Helmut Newton, one of the 20th century's most influential photographers. 150+ photos in color and b&w.

The playboy and James Bond

The playboy and James Bond
Author: Claire Hines
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2018-02-19
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1526116162

This is the first book to focus on James Bond’s relationship to the playboy ideal through the sixties and beyond. Examining aspects of the Bond phenomenon and the playboy lifestyle, it considers how ideas of gender and consumption were manipulated to construct and reflect a powerful male fantasy in the post-war era. This analysis of the close association and relations between the emerging cultural icons of James Bond and the playboy is particularly concerned with Sean Connery’s definitive Bond as he was promoted and used by the media. By exploring the connections that developed between Bond and Playboy magazine within a historical framework, the book offers new insights into these related phenomena and their enduring legacy in popular culture.