This book documents this ground breaking era with information on each pictorial for. During the classical era of the 1970s and 1980s, Penthouse published the most beautiful love pictorials ever seen. In both cases, the photos were taken earlier in their careers and sold to Penthouse only after Madonna and Williams became famous. Penthouse Magazine has been breaking barriers with its pictorial content since the first American Edition hit the newsstands in September 1969. Penthouse has also, over the years, featured a number of authorized and unauthorized photos of celebrities such as Madonna and Vanessa Williams. The magazine's pictorials offered more sexually explicit content than was commonly seen in most openly sold men's magazines of the era it was the first to show female pubic hair, followed by full-frontal nudity and then the exposed vulva and anus.
Guccione would sometimes take several days to complete a shoot.
PENTHOUSE MAGAZINE PICTORIALS PROFESSIONAL
Without professional training, Guccione applied his knowledge of painting to his photography, establishing the diffused, soft focus look that would become one of the trademarks of the magazine's pictorials. Due to Guccione's lack of resources, he personally photographed most of the models for the magazine's early issues. The magazine was founded on humble beginnings.
Guccione offered editorial content that was more sensational than that of Playboy, and the magazine's writing was far more investigative than Hefner's upscale emphasis, with stories about government cover-ups and scandals. It was Bob Guccione attempt to compete with Hugh Hefner's Playboy. Penthouse magazine began publication in 1965, in the UK and in North America in 1969.
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