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Revision as of 05:54, 15 March 2006
Glamour photography is the photographing of a model (usually female), in a way that is intended to be erotic.
What is considered "glamour" has changed with the times. In the 1940s, clothed pin-up pictures were glamour. Many movie stars were featured in pin-up poses showing them in swimsuits. In the 1950s and early 1960s, photographers such as Peter Gowland produced glamour images with partial nudity.
Nude or semi-nude pictures of glamour models typically appear in "softcore" adult magazines such as Playboy, Perfect 10, or in the pages of European tabloid newspapers like The Sun 's Page 3.
In recent years, many "top shelf" magazines like Penthouse, Hustler, and Club have moved in the direction of explicit penetration and sex to compete with the spread of easily available, hardcore Internet pornography. At the same time, the less revealing style of glamour photography continues in men's magazines like Maxim, Loaded, and FHM, which have been successful in large part because they can be openly displayed alongside other mainstream magazines and sold to minors.
There is a system of terms developed in the British glamour photography business to describe the graded levels of explicitness involved:
- glamour (that is to say, typically a skimpy swimsuit, lingerie in the case of women, or briefs in the case of men)
- topless (exposing the breasts)
- artistic nude (exposing the whole body apart from the genitalia)
- magazine nude (exposing the genitalia)
- "American" or "continental" (hardcore pornography)
Some well-known glamour photographers
- Akira Gomi
- Andy Chabot
- Austin Legrew
- Beverley Goodway, Page 3 photographer for 33 years
- Derek McArthur
- Harrison Marks
- Guido Argentini
- Marco Glaviano
- Mizuno
- Herb Ritts
- J. Stephen Hicks
- Suze Randall
- Shaun McManus
- Peter Gowland
- Jelena Jensen
See also
- List of men's magazines
- List of glamour models
- List of Perfect 10 models
- List of Penthouse Pets
- List of Playboy models
- List of Playboy NSS models
- List of big-bust models and performers