I love my job!  I have always had a fascination with 40’s-50’s Pin-Up art.  Two weeks ago, I was very lucky to have a couple a drop dead gorgeous models to work their magic for my Nikon!  These girls rocked it!  The expression, drama, and fun they brought to this shoot made my job easy.  The payoff was immediate for me.  I had an insane amount of “That’s the one!” shots and that made me a very happy photog.

After I carefully studied what past artists had done with pin-up art, I put my girls to work.  I found the early years of Charles Dana Gibson  fascinating, but not quite what I was looking for.  My inspiration came from people like Earle K. Bergey, Olivia De Berardinis, and of course Irving Klaw.

Although the girls and I didn’t get as sexy as some of these past artists, I think we were able to portray beauty and class with an edge.  That was the point. 

Women who posed for these types of portraits were breaking the rules and making life a little easier for future generations.  The models of past generations, usually did these sessions for the money (which was very little).  They weren’t after fame or glory, and in most cases didn’t think of themselves as feminists.  The art was objectified by soldiers, teenagers, old men, and fathers.  It was panned as pornography by more “moral” women.  However, without these early pioneers, I can’t help thinking, what would facebook look like today?  Would women be ashamed of their bodies? Would we, as a society, have more reservations about sex?  What would our dance clubs look like?

This is my conservative take on Pin-Up art.  I am planning a 20’s session for the fall right now!  If you are interested in getting in on this next shoot, send me an email!  My address can be found at www.ciaobellaimages.com . The full Pin-Up gallery can be found at http://www.ciaobellaimages.com/pinup