Irving Klaw Photographs: Pinup, Burlesque and Fetish

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The most famous images of Page by Yeager include the January 1955 Playboy centerfold in which she kneels wearing only a Santa hat while hanging a silver ornament on a Christmas tree and a series of photographs with a pair of live cheetahs. Klaw, self-named the "Pin-up King," was a merchant of sexploitation, fetish, Hollywood glamour pin-up photographs, and underground films. They’re neat time capsules of both the era and the initial, limited, and discreet method of distribution of this type of material,” says No Name Cinema founder and exhibition organizer Justin Clifford Rhody. While some may like the candy colored pin-up of a Bunny Yeager I prefer the darker, noirish, naughty girl look of work by Elmer Batters and Irving Klaw. He now had the proof he needed to go back to Mark Roesler, who was the only person who could approve going to Page to get her signature on the photos.

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Klaw and his sister were eventually compelled by a court to destroy their inventory of all Bettie Page negatives to avoid being prosecuted for sending pornography through the mail.

Page was the most popular pin-up of the 1950s, appearing on more covers than anyone else in the decade. During World War Two, Movie Star News sold pin-ups of movie stars to the troops with a mailing list of 100,000 names. El matrimonio hizo aguas a finales de 1947, y Bettie se trasladó a Coney Island, donde conoció en 1950 a Jerry Tibbs, un fotógrafo amateur que le hizo sus primeras fotos como pin-up y le presentó a Cass Carr.

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I now have the only Bettie Page photos in the world autographed by Paula Klaw, with the signature of Bettie Page, the queen of the pin-up world on them, too,” he says. The Klaws helped lay the groundwork for an erotic industry while fighting critical legal battles for sexual freedoms. Commissioned by Klaw starting in the late 1940s, his bondage fantasy chapter serials earned him underground fame.While his career waned with the coming of relaxed censorship laws of the 1960s, his substance abuse worsened in the early 1970s. According to Bettie Page photograph collector Chuck Keefe, “If Bettie Page had only done normal pin-up poses, we would not be talking about her. Background music and narration were added to the silent fetish loops for the two-volume video Irving Klaw Bondage Classics (1984) by London Enterprises.

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In 1969 when Malkin gave up his business, he left Stanton his mailing lists, altogether 20,000 names and addresses. More of Klaw's bondage film reels, including one with Bettie Page, are in DVD format in Bizarro Sex Loops (Volumes 4 and 20).Bettie was born in 1923 in Nashville, Tennessee, and rose to fame in the 1950s for her swimwear and fetish modeling. In February of 1983, Harmony released what it supposed was the last of its Irving Klaw magazines the ninth in the series.

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Through an organic, entrepreneurial evolution, the Klaws came to be the producers behind some of the era’s most recognizable and important erotic pinups, providing the material to private, wealthy clients. In their traditional exhibitionist role women are simultaneously looked at and displayed, with their appearance coded for strong visual and erotic impact so that they can be said to connote 'to-be-looked-at-ness. The majority occurs on inlaid linoleum with yard equipment visible in the background, although some sofas make an appearance. I am not sure who owns the rights to his photos now, but these are from a flood on the Usenet and the quality was just too good not to share.Woman displayed as sexual object is the leitmotif of erotic spectacle: from pin-ups to strip-tease, from Ziegfeld to Busby Berkeley, she holds the look, plays to and signifies male desire. Disclaimer: I am not the copyright owner of the original image and my electronic publication is not intended to infringe any such copyright. In later years the studios, having thrown away their publicity archives would often have to rent their own photos back from Klaw. IT’S RISKY to believe such witnesses—Stanton and his daughter: both have some vested interest in hitching their wagons to a star like Ditko.