Actually Pinups could be nude, though they were quite demure nudes, by
most standards.
On 2/23/2014 8:28 PM, John wrote:
Your correspondent is full of it! The pin-up implies sex & sexy without
being overtly, graphically pornographic. The background is immaterial.
If you're going for TRADITIONAL, all you need is a hot babe in a one
piece bathing costume:
http://iconicphotos.wordpress.com/2009/05/18/betty-garble-pin-up/
http://www.mostlyposters.com/images/posters/fullsize/50229.jpg
... and for balance (per knarF):
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/11/05/article-0-0060192600000258-707_468x474.jpg
You can use any year automobile you want for your pin-ups. No one's
going to be looking at the damn car anyway.
See also: Alberto Vargas, Esquire Magazine & Nose art.
On 2/23/2014 5:09 PM, Larry Colen wrote:
In another forum I made a comment that it might be fun to do a
pin-up style shoot at the Canepa museum. I got some interesting
critiques of the idea from one person in particular. Some quotes:
... They have a lot of nice cars, but mostly ex-race cars... Only a
couple hot rods. ...
To which I replied, showing my own prejudices:
"We would definitely have to talk to them first.
As to the cars, race cars are what hot rods pretend to be."
Her reply was: If you're going for a traditional pin-up look, you
don't want to be standing next to a 1974 Porsche in a museum. You
want to be standing next to a pre-62 hot rod or kustom. Something
that is distinctly American and not pretending to be anything other
than what it is. The hot rod and kustom culture that originated in
post-war California still exists in a vibrant way, and is accessible
to those who want to shoot traditional pin-up photography and not
just photos of girls with cars.
I said that I didn't particularly care to be authentic, and asked
what I should call it. She said:
Perhaps you should use the term "girls with cars" rather than pin-up
for what you're doing. The last shoot you did would more closely fall
under the genre of portraiture than pin-up. Using high-key lighting
as you did in that shoot is considered very amateur in the pin-up
photographer community.
So, some questions to those who know more about pin-up photography
than I, which isn't setting the bar very high:
What is the definition of "pin-up" photography?
Is high-key lighting really considered amateurish?
Only pre-1962 American cars? Really?
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