3/17/2024 0 Comments Penthouse photo magazinePenthouse began publication in 1965 in the United Kingdom and in North America in 1969, an attempt to compete with Hugh Hefner's Playboy. He occasionally created cartoons for Bill Box's humorous greeting card company Box Cards. To support his family, Guccione managed a chain of laundromats until he got work as a cartoonist on an American weekly newspaper, The London American, while Muriel started a business selling pinup posters. He eventually met an English woman, Muriel Hudson, moved to London with her, and married her. The marriage failed, and he left his wife and child to go to Europe to be a painter. The couple had a daughter, Tonina (1949-2020). In his teens, Guccione married his first wife, Lilyann Becker. He attended high school at Blair Academy, a prep school in Blairstown, New Jersey. An altar boy, he considered but rejected entering the priesthood. Guccione was born in Brooklyn, New York, of Sicilian descent and raised Catholic in Bergenfield, New Jersey, the eldest child of Anthony, an accountant, and Nina, a housewife. In 2003, Guccione's publishers filed for bankruptcy and he resigned as chairman. However, he made some extravagant investments that failed, and the growth of free online pornography in the 1990s greatly diminished his market. By 1982 Guccione was listed in the Forbes 400 wealth list, and owned one of the biggest mansions in Manhattan. This was aimed at competing with Hugh Hefner's Playboy, but with more explicit erotic content, a special style of soft-focus photography, and in-depth reporting of government corruption scandals and the art world. ![]() He founded the adult magazine Penthouse in 1965. Her choice of 28mm lens creates such luminous scenes, still shots that are bursting with living movement and black and white film rich with colour.Robert Charles Joseph Edward Sabatini Guccione ( / ɡ uː tʃ i ˈ oʊ n i/ goo-chee- OH-nee Decem– October 20, 2010) was an American photographer and publisher. ![]() ![]() The standout feature of the issue is a selection of Jill Freedman's two months with a travelling circus, fulfilling her childhood dreams of the circus with her camera. One photographer who's work you might not expect inside a Penthouse publication is that of Henri Cartier-Bresson who with a mini interview offers us a few of his personal favourites. The collection of controversial photographers continues with an interview and and selection of work by David Hamilton who has a lifetime of beautiful ethereal work with a sordid ending having hung himself in Paris at 83 years old as allegations of prior abuse started to surface amongst the #metoo movement. "Her primary motivation - to release interior demons by materialising them photographically." Like Sally Mann, Irina also caused controversy by using her prepubescent daughter in her work. The first feature is a selection of work by Irina Ionesco. Our cameras might have eclipsed these of the past but the past kept all the style. There's something intrinsically beautiful about vintage camera ads, a sweet naivety to the details of 'modern' tech advancements of the 70's. An offshoot of Penthouse Magazine which includes but goes beyond the erotic to focus on photography, photo-essays, relevant interviews, cameras and equipment.
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