Irving Klaw Photographs: Pinup, Burlesque and Fetish

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Seves creates an imaginary scene at Ditko’s drawing board when Stanton, interested in Ditko’s latest assignment from Marvel, gets up from his drawing board and walks to Ditko’s side and looks over his shoulder at the pages Ditko had spread out in front of him—pages that Jack Kirby had drawn, depicting Spider-Man, visuals that Stan Lee had rejected before turning the assignment over to Ditko. 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. In the peculiar way that opposites sometimes attract, the Stanton/Ditko association almost seemed to make sense. We understand that not everyone can donate right now, but if you can afford to contribute, we promise it will be put to good use. Set in New York during 1953-1957, the film faithfully recreates six lost fetish/bondage 16mm featurettes she did for Irving Klaw.

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From 1952 to 1957, a not-so-shy model and camera-club girl named Bettie Page worked for a New York City men’s magazine publisher named Irving Klaw. Yeager was a very prolific and successful pinup photographer in the 1950s and 1960s, so much so, that her work was described as ubiquitous in that era.In 1948, a collector/enthusiast known as Little John "inspired/sponsored Klaw's full-blown entry into the fetish art business. Among the illustrations are three consecutive pages from his celebrated Sweeter Gwen, a retake of John Willie’s classic Sweet Gwendoline.

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So sit back and enjoy these photographs which were taken in an era when times were simpler and women in bondage were as beautiful as women in bondage can be.She became, in time, an American icon, her winning smile and effervescent personality apparent in every pose.