Pin-up

A pin-up is an image of a person intended for display, often emphasizing glamour or sexual appeal. The term also describes the visual style and cultural tradition built around such images.

Charles Dana Gibson: An American illustrator whose idealized images of women became known as the Gibson Girl. His popular Gibson Girl helped establish an American tradition of idealized feminine illustration.
Illustration: A visual representation made to clarify, interpret, or decorate a subject. Illustration was the medium for many classic pin-ups before photography dominated the form.
Betty Grable: An American actress and dancer whose 1943 swimsuit photograph became a famous World War II pin-up. Her image became one of the era's best-known service-member pin-ups.
Erotic photography: Photography that evokes sexual desire without necessarily depicting explicit sexual activity. Pin-up images can be erotic, but their display-oriented glamour distinguishes the tradition.
World War II: A global war fought from 1939 to 1945 between the Allied and Axis powers. Wartime circulation made pin-ups familiar morale images among military personnel.
Alberto Vargas: A Peruvian-American artist known for elegant pin-up paintings published in Esquire and Playboy. His airbrushed Esquire paintings shaped the polished look of mid-century pin-ups.
Glamour photography: Photography that presents subjects as attractive, stylish, or romantically appealing. It supplies the lighting, posing, and retouching conventions often associated with photographic pin-ups.
Marilyn Monroe: An American actress and model who became a major popular-culture figure in the 1950s. Her photographs circulated as pin-ups and helped define Hollywood glamour imagery.
Pornography: Media depicting sexual activity or explicit sexual content for sexual arousal. Pin-ups often suggest sexuality without explicit sexual activity, unlike much pornography.
Sexual objectification: The treatment of a person primarily as an instrument of sexual desire rather than as a whole individual. Criticism of pin-ups often focuses on reducing women to sexualized display.

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