Irving Klaw Photographs: Pinup, Burlesque and Fetish

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Irving approached the studios directly back when most Hollywood studio publicity departments lined Manhattan's 11th Ave and discovered they were in the habit of throwing away their publicity materials after a film had had its run. While he worked with many different models, Klaw's images with Bettie Page were his most popular and best known.

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While battling some fierce inner demons, the legendary Bettie Page had quietly, secretly fled New York and given her life to Jesus Christ. In a 1998 interview with Lorelei Sharkely, Page said of that time, “The only bondage posing I ever did was for Irving Klaw and his sister Paula. In 1955, the controversy surrounding his fetish works spurred on by Estes Kefauver caused him to shut down this part of his business (and in the process, he destroyed his entire collection of fetish works to avoid prosecution), but the classic works which have survived in personal collections have endured for fans everywhere. The difficulty in dating these bulletins, as you might imagine, stems from Klaw often repeating or recycling previous ads. Commissioned by Klaw starting in the late 1940s, his bondage fantasy chapter serials earned him underground fame.From then on, Bilbrew focused on fetish art, producing work for notable underground publishers Irving Klaw, Edward Mishkin, Stanley Malkin, and the Sturman brothers.

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To please her, he eventually took a full-time job delivering parts for Pan Am, doing only a little drawing in his spare time.Playboy Playmate of 1955 Bettie Page, whom Klaw had previously directed, [1] was cast as a second-tier dancer. His nephew Ira Kramer, son of Paula and Jack Kramer, took over the family business, Movie Star News, which was located on 18th Street but closed in 2012, and relocated to Las Vegas, Nevada. Her big break came as the Playboy Centerfold for January 1955 – in which she acted as a sexy Santa and decorated a Christmas tree. It was a Saturday evening, St Valentine’s Day 1970, when William Jellett first thought he might be Jesus.