The Great American Pin-Up

the long version

Pictures from an age when eroticism was still innocentThey've been exciting generations of men, on calendars and covers, as centrefolds or even on playing cards: pin-ups. What started as an exercise in oils was soon taken up in various media - pin-up mascots graced the fuselages of American fighters, and became an essential feature of the male world of garages and barracks. And the age of political correctness hasn't ended their appeal.This book tells the tale of a genre as utterly American as t