Cheri's Role in Cultivating the "Bedroom Glamour" Genre
The French actress, model, and singer Cheri became synonymous with bedroom glamour in the late 1940s and early 1950s when she posed for...
Frequent Use of Soft Focus Photography
Cheri made extensive use of soft focus, diffusion filters, and warm color grading—particularly in the 1980s. These techniques created a dreamlike quality...
Playboy Magazine was founded in 1953 by Hugh Hefner, an American entrepreneur and publisher. He was interested in creating a magazine that would appeal to both men and women, and he decided to focus...
Playboy is an American men's lifestyle and entertainment magazine founded in Chicago in 1953. It is known for featuring sexy pictorials of nude women accompanied by interviews and articles about...
Avoided Stock Photography
Unlike many adult mags, Taboo relied almost entirely on original, commissioned photography—each issue felt tailor-made.
It was published monthly from 1982 to 1994,...
Crossed Over with Fetish Photography Books:
Crossed Over is a term that has been used to describe the blurring of boundaries between different genres within photography since at least the early...
Erotic magazines have been published for many years, and they play an important role in documenting erotica through photography exhibitions globally. These exhibitions feature photographers from...
Erotic photography is often associated with titillation and shock value.
Many photographers have used their craft to explore more complex ideas about desire, lust, and sexuality. In the late...