Bettie Page: Restrain bondage Goddess

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Irving Klaw began selling pin-up pictures in the 1950s, many of which featured the legendary Bettie Page. When he began to receive demands from his clients for pics of women in what would today be considered S & M and restrain bondage situations, he complied. Making 16mm films out of his own home featuring Bettie and other softcore women of the era, Klaw created an oeuvre which today's fetish material resumes to reference. Much of this work was burned when Klaw was accused of purveying pornography, and the films collected here are rarities not formerly available. Surreal and strangely innocent, the films and pictures are clearly staged in someone's basement, while the fetishwear--not widely attainable in those days--was mostly homemade, lending the work an immediacy and delicate intimity not to be found in similar, more contemporary, films.