Glamour photography
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Glamour photography is the photographing of a model (usually female), in a way that is intended to be erotic, yet not pornographic.
What is considered "glamour" has changed with the times. In the 1940s, clothed pin-up pictures were glamour. Many movie stars were featured in pin-up poses showing them in swimsuits. In the 1950s and early 1960s, photographers such as Peter Gowland produced glamour images with partial nudity.
Nude or semi-nude pictures of glamour models typically appear in "softcore" adult magazines such as Playboy, Perfect 10, or in the pages of European tabloid newspapers like The Sun's Page 3.
In recent years, many "top shelf" magazines like Hustler, and Club have moved in the direction of explicit penetration and sex to compete with the spread of easily available, hardcore Internet pornography. At the same time, the less revealing style of glamour photography continues in men's magazines like Maxim, Loaded, and FHM, which have been successful in large part because they can be openly displayed alongside other mainstream magazines and sold to minors.
There is a system of terms developed in the British glamour photography business to describe the graded levels of explicitness involved:
- glamour (that is to say, typically a skimpy swimsuit, lingerie in the case of women, or briefs in the case of men)
- topless (exposing the breasts)
- artistic or figure nude (exposing the whole body apart from the genitalia)
- UK magazine nude (exposing the genitalia)
- US magazine nude (using fingers to spread the vulva - also known as "showing pink")
- Continental (insertion of fingers or sex toys into the vagina)
- Hardcore
Similar styles
The term “cheesecake” is synonymous with “glamour photography”. The earliest documented print usage of this sense of “cheesecake” is in 1934 [link], predating “pin-up”, although anecdotes say the phrase was in spoken slang some 20 years earlier, originally in the phrase (said of a pretty woman) “better than cheesecake”. A similar photographic style based on male models is often called beefcake photography.Some well-known glamour photographers
- Akira Gomi
- Andy Chabot
- Austin Legrew
- Beverley Goodway, Page 3 photographer for 33 years
- David Mecey
- Pompeo Posar
- Filippo Sano, [PhotoDromm]
- Harrison Marks
- Guido Argentini
- Marco Glaviano
- Mizuno
- Herb Ritts
- J. Stephen Hicks
- Rolando Gomez
- Suze Randall
- Shaun McManus
- Peter Gowland
- Peter Basch
- Jelena Jensen
- George Hurrell
See also
- List of men's magazines
- List of glamour models
- List of Penthouse Pets
- List of Playboy models
- List of Playboy NSS models
- List of big-bust models and performers
External links
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