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Peter Gowland (1916 - 2010) started taking glamor and pin-up photographs
of young woman in and around Los Angeles in 1946. In 1954, The New York
Times called him America's No. 1 Pin-up Photographer early into his
career and later situated his pictures someplace between titillation and
art.
Peter Gowland found his models on Hollywood film sets and at agencies or
beauty contests. He posed and photographed them in his studio or on the
beaches from Los Angeles to Malibu, thus contributing significantly to
the myth of California as a perpetually sunny postwar paradise.
Peter Gowland's Girls presents some 180 works selected from the
photographer's estate, which comprises tens of thousands of superb
prints and slides, including the most sensational, most elegant, and
most daring pictures from his unparalleled career as a pin-up
photographer. The book displays his portraits of stars like Joan Collins
and Jayne Mansfield, his work for Playboy and Rolling Stone, and his
pictures for innumerable calendars and magazines from the 1940s to the
1970s. The pictures in Peter Gowland's Girls* are a snapshot of days
past but have remained stunningly ageless all the same.
