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Irving Klaw was a pin up photographer active throughout the late 40s, 50s and early 60s.  He ran his studio and shop/mail order business with the help of his sister Paula Kramer.  He is perhaps best known for his pictures of Bettie Page, an archetypal pin up model who underwent a popularity revival in the 1980s.

I have a small collection of Irving Klaw photos including these two which really put the sexy back into reading. Klaw was a pioneer in fetish photography who discovered the public demand for ‘damsel in distress’ photos which developed gradually into clothing fetish and bondage as we know it today.

I would like to say that reading was as attractive to Klaw’s customers but these appear to be proofs rather than retail pictures (which were normally marked with Klaw’s name and copyright) and it is possible they never went on sale.

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