The extraordinary history of the Pirelli calendars began in 1963 when the Pirelli tire company created a pin-up calendar as a promotional piece for top customers. Every year since, the company has called upon world-renowned photographers such as Richard Avedon, Mario Testino, Herb Ritts, Norman Parkinson, Bruce Weber, and Annie Leibovitz to photograph the world's most beautiful women, including Iman, Cindy Crawford, Naomi Campbell, Sophia Loren, Naomi Watts, and Penelope Cruz. These images stretch the parameters of sensual fantasy and fabulous photography, and their quality establish the calendar as a paradigm of its genre and a coveted collector's item. This book contains all the photographs from the calendars from 1964 to 2007, the never-published calendar of 1963, and traces both the evolution of the calendar and the history of photography in the past forty years.
Mature Readers
Publisher: Rizzoli, 2008 Binding:
Hardcover with dustjacket
Dimensions: 12x12 Pages: 640pg Color:
PC
ISBN: #9780847830077
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