http://sexinthepublicsquare.org/node/369 Comments for ""Glamour Photography" Issue Posted Online" en http://sexinthepublicsquare.org/node/369#comment-396 I&#39;ve missed your archival abilities, Chris!<div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder" /></div> Mon, 03 Sep 2007 17:33:20 -0700 Elizabeth comment 396 at http://sexinthepublicsquare.org http://sexinthepublicsquare.org/node/369 Via <a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2007/09/03/scan-of-1957-magazin.html" target="_blank" title="Boing Boing">Boing<img src="/files/images-imce/glamourphotog_0.jpg" title="Cover of Glamour Photography" align="left" height="100" width="77" /></a> <a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2007/09/03/scan-of-1957-magazin.html" target="_blank" title="Boing Boing"> Boing</a>,  the repository of all that is weird and eccentric on the Internetz, I found this interesting piece of our sexual past: a Russian site that has scanned an entire issue of an old girlie mag from 1957 called <i>Glamour Photography</i>.  It&#39;s an enormous site, and if you&#39;re not on broadband it&#39;s going to take a while for it to load.  Even on broadband, it needs a little patience, but if you like this sort of thing, it&#39;s worth giving it a chance.  I love these kinds of artifacts; besides the eroticism, the history of sex is so poorly preserved that every little bit that does get saved is like reading a secret diary, and especially when it&#39;s the full thing, not just pictures in a Taschen anthology.  In this particular magazine, as in many of the time, I feel a massive disconnect between the pictures<p><a href="http://sexinthepublicsquare.org/node/369">read more</a></p> http://sexinthepublicsquare.org/node/369#comments glamour photography history porn publishing retro Mon, 03 Sep 2007 15:04:31 -0700 Chris 369 at http://sexinthepublicsquare.org