Rarely viewed by the outside world, this collection of posters from the 1950s to the present encompasses a politically significant period in Vietnamese history. With their boldly rendered images of Ho Chi Minh and local heroes; guerrilla fighters, tanks and bombers; factory workers and the urban and rural landscape, these posters-many produced in small numbers under economically adverse conditions-reverberate with vibrant colors and innovative graphic language, revealing much about the country's cultural and political climate. An overview of the collection shows how imagery from indigenous ...

The Golden Age of bad girls Gun-toting femme fatales caught in the action! Follows the evolution and devolution of this distinctly American genre from 1924 to 1969 At the height of the Jazz Age, when Prohibition was turning ordinary citizens into criminals and ordinary criminals into celebrities, Americas true crime detective magazines were born. True Detective came first in 1924, and by 1934, when the Great Depression had produced colorful outlaws like Machine Gun Kelly, Bonnie and Clyde, Baby Face Nelson, and John Dillinger, the magazines were so popular cops and robbers alike vied to see themselves on the pages. Even FBI boss J. Edgar Hoover wrote regularly for what came to be called the "Dickbooks," referring to a popular slang term for the police. As the decades rolled on, the magazines went through a curious metamorphosis, however.When liquor was once more legal, the Depression over and all the flashy criminals dead or imprisoned, the "detectives" turned to sin to make sales. Sexy bad girls in tight sweaters, slit skirts and stiletto heels adorned every cover. Coverlines shouted "I Was a Girl BurglarFor Kicks,""Sex Habits of Women Killers," "Bride of Sin!,""She Played Me for a Sucker," and most succinctly,"Bad Woman." True Crime Detective Magazines follows the evolution and devolution of this distinctly American genre from 1924 to 1969. Hundreds of covers and interior images from dozens of magazine titles tell the story, not just of the "detectives," but also of Americas attitudes towards sex, sin, crime and punishment over five decades. With texts by magazine collector Eric Godtland, George Hagenaur and True Detective editor Marc Gerald, True Crime Detective Magazines is an informative and entertaining look at one of the strangest publishing niches of all time. "My buddies wanted to be firemen, farmers or policemen, something like that. Not me, I just wanted to steal peoples money!" JOHN DILLINGER

A fresh perspective on movie posters, comparing posters from different countries that promote the same film.

- The definitive work on this most imaginative of posterists - Complete annotations and index - Includes biography, essays on his early Italian film posters, as well as his commercial posters in Ital

Welcome to pornotopia! Everything you could ever want to know about the world history of mens magazines. A twenty-five-year veteran of the genre, former mens magazine editor, Dian Hanson traces its development from 1900 to 1980 in three massive and informative volumes.

The definitive annotated and illustrated history of girlie periodicals (1958-1967) Volume IV concentrates on the emergence of California's specialty magazine industry and how it spawned the state's multi-billion dollar sex industry of today, but also includes fetish master Irving Klaw, the specialty magazines of England, and concludes with Sweden and Denmark's emergence as the new powers in European publishing. Together with Volume III, Volume IV gives a complete picture of this fascinating decade of rapid social change, but also stands on its own, covering a distinctly different, more risqu? side of 1960s men's magazine publishing. Volume IV contains over 400 full color pages of magazine covers and interiors with well-researched text profiling important publishers and artists, individual magazines, and specialty magazine categories. This hardcover volume is an instant collectable and is vital to completion of Dian Hanson?s: The History of Men's Magazines six-volume set.

In 460 full-color pages you`ll learn how the first magazines appeared around 1900 in France, Germany and the US. Then follow along through the timid teens, the decadent twenties, the desperate thirties through the war and reconstruction. Covered in Volume 1 are men`s magazines masquerading as movie magazines, humor magazines, detective magazines, art magazines, nudist magazines, and "spicy" fiction, as well as items like the Tijuana Bibles that pretended nothing and made no excuses. This hardcover volume is a fascinating instant collectable all on its own, and a must have to complete the six volume set of Dian Hanson`s: The History of Men`s Magazines.

Las que se han dado en llamar "chicas de calendario" han avivado el deseo masculino no solo desde calendarios colgados en las paredes, sino también de portadas de revista, pósteres de páginas centrales o incluso juegos de cartas. Lo que empezó siendo una forma de practicar con óleos, pronto se extendió a muchos otros ámbitos: las chicas pasaron a dar un toque elegante a los fuselajes del Ejército estadounidense y se convirtieron en toda una seña de identidad de los talleres mecánicos y los barracones militares. Y ni siquiera la época de la corrección política les ha restado encanto. Este libro cuenta la historia del género pin-up, tan genuinamente estadounidense como las pinturas de Edward Hopper, con un paseo detallado por sus orígenes y evolución, y obras de los mejores artistas. Con más de 900 ilustraciones, The Great American Pin-Up constituye un estudio exhaustivo de esta imaginería.

Cada día una nueva pin-up con la que alegrarse la vista Pensada para quienes han sustituido las agendas por un smartphone, TASCHEN presenta la nueva serie 365 días: foto a foto, que les permitirá seg