#503 - EPA 3 Exotique Photo Album Burmel She Devils Selbee
Exotique Photo Album No. 3
Burmel [BURtman/HimMEL] Publishing Co.
New York, New York
c. 1958
digital replica
and
”The She-Devils”
Connoisseur Photo Series, C-3
Selbee Associates, Inc.
New York, New York
c. 1962
digital replica
Exotique Photo Album No. 3
The 38 issues of Exotique magazine contained a mix of prose, illustrations and photographs. Most of us never saw an issue of Exotique with too many pictures. Photo Album No. 3 collects la crème de la crème of Exotique photographs, showing us more of the sets that were sampled in the numbered issues.
Nanette Rockwell, Bettie Page, Diane Kirby, Tana Louise, Joyce Miles, and other sexy models featured without names on the pages of Exotique. dress up in high heels, full-fashioned stockings, corsets, garter belts and long gloves. Apparently, Mr. Burtman's fantasy was to gaze at a slender beauty so-attired, adjusting hosiery, smoothing gloves, donning footwear, or just reclining on a sofa in his apartment salon.
The assortment of more than 60 pictures shows both shoes and boots, most with heels of five inches or more. Leather dresses and satin corsets appear in some photos.
The quality of photography and production in the original reflect care and competence. The ebook has been configured to fill pages from top to bottom present with the model content of each picture. To accomplish this, some furniture, carpet, curtains and ceilings do not appear in the ebook. To avoid the appearance of film grain, no picture was stretched. Some unpleasant
shadows were reduced.
The ebook presentation improves on the conscientious work of the original with adjustments that brighten images and remove occasional spots. The digital rendering provides the best mechanism for enjoying this rare fetish pinup album from the middle of that last century.
"The She-Devils," C-3
Three pretty women, who appear to be friends, collect in the living room of a house. Wearing dresses at first, they soon show us their street undies before they change into corsets and high-heeled footwear. They fuss with each other's lace tightening, try on leather and satin dresses. The petite brunette tries on boots, then has the gal with flowers in her hair adjust the many straps of exotic sandals. Several pictures show one of the trio aiming a camera at the other two.
The booklet contains no narrative text. The relevance of the title eludes. [Do the quotation marks intend irony?]
In more than 55 photographs, the vignette presents a fantasy of merry misses in bras, panties and stockings helping each other with corsets and dresses just for the fun of it. A giggling pillow fight would complete the scenario.
The ebook has been configured to present the models in each picture as filling pages from top to bottom. Some furniture, carpet, curtains and ceilings have been cropped out at picture edges to accomplish this. Some of the photographs are wide rather than tall, requiring the reader to rotate the booklet. The ebook pages were widened to present those at full size. To avoid the appearance of film grain, no picture was stretched.
The ebook presentation improves on the good work of the original with adjustments that brighten images and remove occasional spots and specks. The digital rendering provides the best mechanism for enjoying this rare fetish photo set from the 1960s.
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