White, Kim (featuring)
 
Introducing: Kim White (vintage pinup digest magazine, 1957)
 
Toronto, ONT: [Digest Publications], 1957. Vintage nude pinup digest magazine featuring model Kim White, posing & emphasizing natural assets, nude brunette against plain backdrop, bathing suits, high-contrast figure poses, nice centerfold. Confident appeal, like Virginia Gordon.
 
Hundreds of similar digest magazines were produced by fly-by-night operations, mainly around New York, notably Burmel Publishing (Lenny Burtman's enterprise). Many were published as photography and/or art "studies" booklets, w/ technical camera data, exposure chart, & the standard emphasis on sexual liberation; early issues featured several models per issue & many maintain airbrushing techniques rolled over from nudist magazines, much of the posing naturally obscures otherwise censored areas. Still scarce institutionally. 
 
32pp, 5.25 x 8.25 inches, B/W throughout, duochrome wrapper, saddle-stapled. Very Good overall, rubbing, spine 3/4 split, creases.
 
Jim Linderman, "Proto-Porn: The Art Figure Study Scam of the 1950s," 2012. [Book ID 126125] [Magazines]