nickzou
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So I was at my friend's house browsing through his bookshelf when I encountered two whole rows of magazines. And to my boyish delight, I found that they were Playboy's from 1970 up to 1998. Now admittedly, boobs and beautiful women aren't as exciting as they were when I was 8 years old but what struck me was, first of all, the types of girls they used to have, but also the photography.
There's something very organic and earthy about the photography of Playboy circa 1970-1974, it wasn't so airbrushed and so plastic like today's Playboy. Browsing through the images I noticed today's bad habits definitely started somewhere in the 90's but as being a child of the era, I have a soft spot for that soft 90's glow and that overly warm white balance. Plus, the artificialness of the 90's wasn't so much heavy photoshop as in elaborate lighting and wind tricks to make the women look as impossibly beautiful which in turn made that look genuinely desirable.
I do not have much love for the heavy make-up, overly frilly underwear, and the big hair of the 80's. And the late 70's were just a slow gradual evolution away from the natural look of the early decade into the gaudy overly glamorized 80's.
So what are your fondest memories of Playboy? What is your favourite era of Playboy photography? Do you guys still have a collection?
There's something very organic and earthy about the photography of Playboy circa 1970-1974, it wasn't so airbrushed and so plastic like today's Playboy. Browsing through the images I noticed today's bad habits definitely started somewhere in the 90's but as being a child of the era, I have a soft spot for that soft 90's glow and that overly warm white balance. Plus, the artificialness of the 90's wasn't so much heavy photoshop as in elaborate lighting and wind tricks to make the women look as impossibly beautiful which in turn made that look genuinely desirable.
I do not have much love for the heavy make-up, overly frilly underwear, and the big hair of the 80's. And the late 70's were just a slow gradual evolution away from the natural look of the early decade into the gaudy overly glamorized 80's.
So what are your fondest memories of Playboy? What is your favourite era of Playboy photography? Do you guys still have a collection?