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Title: Bernard of Hollywood: The Ultimate Pin-Up Book by Bruno Bernard, Susan Bernard, David Wills ISBN: 3-8228-6217-7 Publisher: TASCHEN America Llc Pub. Date: 15 June, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: ABSOLUTELY AWESOME......
Comment: This is truly the ultimate pin-up book. I have seen some of these photos over the years and it's satisfying to put a name to them. But what's really surprising is the vast quantity of output this man had. He was certainly prolific and there's no question as to why he was sought after by the rich and glamorous. He was a genius. These are amazing pictures and portraits of some of the most stunning women on the planet from the 40's and 50's. We'll never know another era like that. Beautiful clothes, costumes and jewelry adorn these women from a time when glamour was GLAMOUR. From starlets to cheesecake models to showgirls to stars---they're all here and captured in all their splendor. Even the stunning 50's stripper Lili St.Cyr is here in rare and incredible photos. Thanks to Susan Bernard (from "Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!") her fathers' work is receiving another round of applause and admiration. This book is embedded with legend. A MUST for auteurs of glamour photography and a MUST for nostalgia lovers. Recommended HIGHLY.
Rating: 5
Summary: Eisenhower, eyes and wow
Comment: The photographs of Bruno Bernard are historic treasures documenting a period of Americana when purity and innocence masked the prurient. As teenagers when my friends and I joined the military after Pearl Harbor, we considered ourselves to be tough men; our images of naughtiness were induced by the pin-up.
The Ultimate Pin-Up is a coffee table collection of beautiful photographs--the colors are brilliant, the hair styles and clothing which drape the subjects who found their way to Hollywood or Las Vegas in the forties and fifties are significant representations of the American spirit post WWII; this being an era of US military might and rapid technological changes. Decades ago I felt these photographs were of loose women yet as I peruse the book I am amused by the sweetness and demurenss of the models and their poses.
The book is printed with high quality paper, the collection is heavy so it needs to rest on a table. It is fun to peruse; each page delights and tickles my memories of the days before the younger generation elected JFK to the White House.
This book makes me happy. Bernard of Hollywood will be remembered for his documenting history. Although the book is filed with the topic "Sex" I feel it should be referenced as "History". The images are certainly "Art". Smithsonian.
Rating: 4
Summary: Great reference for taking Classic styled Pin-Up Photos
Comment: Bernard of Hollywood Pin-Ups is a fun and fast way to get started recapturing the look and feel of the '40's and '50's styled Pin-Up Photography. Of course, this book's instruction applies to anytime, but the examples shown are all Classic Pin-up. Each page comes with a short summary of the thought behind each full page Black & White photo and a small diagram showing lighting and camera position. A bio of Bernard of Hollywood and the philosophy behind his photographs completes the book. It's straight forward and to the point, a worth while addition to a Pin-Up book collection, and a simple instructive guide for beginning photographers.
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Title: 1000 Pin-Up Girls by Harald Hellmann, Burkhard Riemscneider, Christian Goodden ISBN: 3822820946 Publisher: TASCHEN America Llc Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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Title: The Great American Pin-Up by Charles G. Martignette, Louis K. Meisel ISBN: 3822817015 Publisher: TASCHEN America Llc Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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Title: Bunny Yeager's Pin-Up Girls of the 1950's by Bunny Yeager ISBN: 0764314734 Publisher: Schiffer Publishing Pub. Date: January, 2002 |
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Title: Blondes! (Bernard of Hollywood Pin-Ups) by Susan Bernard, Bruno Bernard ISBN: 0446910031 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: March, 1995 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: Gil Elvgren. All his glamorous American pin-ups. by Charles G. Martignette, Louis K. Meisel ISBN: 3822829307 Publisher: TASCHEN America Llc Pub. Date: 01 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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