DarkPinupGirls.
A pin-up girl is a woman whose physical attractiveness would entice one to place a picture of her on a wall. The term was first attested to in English in 1941; however the practice is documented back at least to the 1890s. The “pin up” images could be cut out of magazines or newspapers, or be from postcard or chromo-lithographs, and so on. Such photos often appear on calendars, which are meant to be pinned up anyway. Later, posters of “pin-up girls” were mass produced.
Many “pin ups” were photographs of celebrities who were considered sex symbols. One of the most popular early pin-up girls was Betty Grable. Her poster was ubiquitous in the lockers of GIs during World War II. Others pin-ups were artwork, often depicting idealized versions of what some thought particularly a beautiful or attractive woman should look like. An early example of the latter type was the Gibson girl, drawn by Charles Dana Gibson. The genre also gave rise to several well-known artists specializing in the field, including Alberto Vargas and George Petty, and numerous lesser artists such as Art Frahm.
A dark pin up is an image which fits the pinup genre however also has something different about it, maybe there is something visually odd about the image, maybe the picture contains a girl wearing fetish clothing in a pin up style or maybe a girl of a alternative subculture in a pinup style shoot. Then again it could be any variation of these, and will be interpreted by each member differently.
DarkPinupGirls is a LiveJournal community of photographers, models, artists and admirers of the dark pin up girl style image.
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