{"product_id":"peter-gowlands-girls-9783868287493","title":"Peter Gowland's Girls","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDAS AUF AMAZON.DE ANGEGEBENE ERSCHEINUNGSDATUM BEZIEHT SICH NUR AUF USA. DER TITEL IST IN EUROPA BEREITS LIEFERBAR, AUCH DURCH AMAZON.DE \/\u003cbr\u003eTHE PUBLICATION DATE INDICATED HERE IS ONLY FOR USA. THIS TITLE IS ALREADY AVAILABLE IN EUROPE, ALSO ON AMAZON.DE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePeter Gowland (1916 - 2010) started taking glamor and pin-up photographs of young woman in and around Los Angeles in 1946. In 1954, The \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e called him \"America's No. 1 Pin-up Photographer\" early into his career and later situated his pictures \"someplace between titillation and art.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePeter 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePeter Gowland's Girls\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003ePlayboy\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eRolling Stone\u003c\/i\u003e, and his pictures for innumerable calendars and magazines from the 1940s to the 1970s. The pictures in \u003ci\u003ePeter Gowland's Girls*\u003c\/i\u003e are a snapshot of days past but have remained stunningly ageless all the same.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Thomas Schirmböck\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Kehrer Verlag\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/27\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.2lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.40h x 8.00w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783868287493\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kehrer Verlag","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45361574576265,"sku":"9783868287493","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_a7b37571-a73e-45fc-ac06-82ab24741e41.jpg?v=1773170657","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/peter-gowlands-girls-9783868287493","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}