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

Gary Cole & Hugh Hefner - Playboy - The Celebrities - Schirmer Mosel - 2006 - German - 176 pages - Hardcover with dust jacket - 31 x 23 cm

The success story of Hugh Hefner's Playboy, still uninterrupted after half a century, is not only due to the interesting interviews it is so often associated with. Of course, it’s not just that, but mainly the photographs — to put it simply: the photos of naked women. Naturally, you also see them in various other more or less erotic glossy magazines. And in some of these magazines, you will certainly find artistically refined photographs by renowned photographers that hardly fall short of those in Playboy. But no one has managed to persuade so many stars to pose completely nude or scantily clad in erotic poses as Playboy. Those curious about why can 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 been stripped for the magazine's photographers (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 gathered here. Some first posed for Playboy before becoming famous, such as Cindy Crawford (1988) or Pamela Anderson (1991, 1992, 1994).

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