Mara (featuring)
 
Exclusive Showing: Mara, the Buxom Beauty (vintage pinup digest magazine, 1950s)
 
N.p.: Pearlite Enterprises, 1950s. Vintage nude pinup digest magazine featuring model known as Mara, posing & emphasizing natural assets, heels, chairs, animal print, lamps, figure study centerfold. Lithe brunette resembling Rosemary Clarke.
 
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 Plus, light rubbing, pencil price to front.
 
Jim Linderman, "Proto-Porn: The Art Figure Study Scam of the 1950s," 2012. [Book ID 126127] [Magazines]