Gary Cole & Hugh Hefner - Playboy - The Celebrities - 2006

Gary Cole & Hugh Hefner - Playboy - The Celebrities - Schirmer Mosel - 2006 - German - 176 pp. - Hardcover with dust jacket - 31 x 23 cm - the loose cover is slightly damaged (see photos); the inside is in good condition.

The success story of Hugh Hefner's Playboy, after half a century still uninterrupted, is not only about the interesting interviews to which one so readily refers. It is of course not only that, but above all the photographs - to put it simply: the pictures of naked women. Of course you also see them in various other somewhat erotic glossy magazines. And in some of these magazines you can certainly find artistically refined photographs by well-known photographers that hardly pale in comparison to those in Playboy. But no one has managed to persuade so many stars to pose completely naked or sparsely clothed in erotic poses as Playboy. If you want to know why, you’ll find the answer in this beautifully illustrated book, which reviews five decades of Playboy through the photographs of prominent contemporaries.

And since then countless stars have stripped for the photographers of the magazine (including: John Derek, Herb Ritts, David LaChapelle, Richard Fegley): Anita Ekberg (1956) or Ursula Andress (1965), but also Melanie Griffith (1976), Raquel Welch (1979), Bo Derek (1980), Kim Basinger (1983), Madonna (1985), Brigitte Nielsen (1987), Farrah Fawcett (1995), Nancy Sinatra (1995), Naomi Campbell (1999) or Anna Nicole Smith (2001), to name just a few celebrities collected here. Some undressed first for Playboy and then became famous, such as Cindy Crawford (1988) or Pamela Anderson (1991, 1992, 1994).

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