Leather, bondage and femdom make a great setting for pinup photography. Take a sneak peak into pinup subculture.

A great place to find pinups is the fetish magazine. You may be surprised, but the fetish magazine originates in the sweet ole’ 1960’s. You might also be surprised to know that these magazines are aimed to be erotic rather than pornographic. Fetishes aren’t for everybody, Wikipedia says it beautifully:

Much of the content in fetish magazines is baffling to people who do not share the particular fetishes discussed and depicted.

But if you never try- you never know.

Exotique- The Grandfather of Fetish Magazine

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It’s movie poster mania at The Pinup Blog!

Movie posters are one of the most diversified genre there is. From photography, to realistic illustration, to the expressive and dramatic- Show biz has got it all! Of course, I’m a sucker for it’s pinups- the classic and the contemporary. Some are old-school, some I’m seeing for the first time, some will became classic in twenty year’s time. So let’s zoom into this modern art- the movie poster.

Art Nouveau Does Hollywod

Before movies were in color, or had sound, or camera movement, the posters were just as low tech. This doesn’t mean that they were inferior- on the contrary. Movie posters in the 20’s and before were designed by the most respected fine artists, such as Alfons Mucha, Eugène Grasset and Paul Colin. Always very expressionistic, focusing on colors, shapes and rhythms. All this sophistication, however, leaves enough room for a lot of sex-appeal, and as the years progressed, the cleavage regressed.


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