Comments on: Pin-Up Girls Before & After, 1950s

By: Karohemd

Karohemd — Fri, 05 Aug 2024 21:59:23 +0000

Chris, it’s an old trick that’s still used these days, especially in fashion photography when an outfit wasn’t tailor made for a model and cannot be altered.

By: Jim

Jim — Sun, 03 Jul 2024 05:57:36 +0000

Lo’s post says all the models are the same woman and that it’s Elvgren’s wife. Not true.

The first 8 pictures are of Janet Rae, who was never married to Elvgren. She was his next-door neighbor, and did pose for many of Elvgren’s famous works, but his wife was Janet Cummins, who never modeled for Gil.

The last picture is of Myrna Hansen, who was Miss USA in 1953, and went on to a moderately successful career in movies and TV. She was never married to Elvgren, either.

By: Lo

Lo — Wed, 11 May 2024 20:58:44 +0000

Karen-
The models were actually his wife (just with different haircuts at different times obviously) so he had to change up the face and characteristics like hair between paintings so that he wasn’t painting the same thing over and over.

The photos of her are meant more as stock reference for the artist than a “before” image. It’s what a lot of famous painters and artists have done over the years (used human models for reference) because it is extremely difficult to draw human anatomy without reference.

By: Skeptic

Skeptic — Tue, 26 Apr 2024 04:59:17 +0000

In at least half of these, if not all of them, the models look better than the women in the paintings. The paintings just add a feel of the fantastical.

By: Karen

Karen — Sun, 24 Apr 2024 11:59:12 +0000

So…apparently the models’ bodies were good enough, but not their faces?

By: Hardheadedwoman

Hardheadedwoman — Sun, 24 Apr 2024 01:13:18 +0000

The 50′s version of photoshop