Product Description

Bettie Page first came to notice through a glamour photograph published in "Flirt" magazine in 1951. Containing photographs and artists' representations, this book explores her influence on American popular culture, from dime novels to paperbacks, and from painting to advertising.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #308187 in Books
• Published on: 1995-11-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 96 pages

Customer Reviews

Bettie Page
Excellent book, with good pictures of Bettie. It has a good piece of Bettie's story, too!

a great fan of bettys......

I love Betty Paige...and adored this book...I read many
true stories and unusual or odd memoirs...I find them
to be the most stimulating because they are not mainstream.
This book was well worth reading....

Tawdry Rather Than Celebratory
The most unfortunate thing about Jim Silke's book is that he writes about Bettie Page (and very poorly, at that) as an object rather than as a person--his interest in Bettie doesn't seem to extend beyond his own masturbatory fantasies. It doesn't appear that the author spent much time researching his subject (beyond looking at her pictures). While there are a respectable number photographs and some nice artwork by Dave Stevens and Robert McGinnis, there are far too many pages devoted to Silke's own drawings of Bettie, many of which are based on old movie stills or Olivia paintings.