Before it was a show business genre, burlesque was an attitude. It was parody, outrageousness, exaggeration, pastiche--even grotesquerie. If in 19th- and 20th-century America the term came to signify a variety show of light comedy, dance, and strip tease, eventually descending to a plateau of triviality, cheap sexuality, and predictable gaudy costumes, it has now--Woo Hoo! Ladies!--been resuscitated. (It's amazing what a feminist revolution can accomplish when pasties and sequins are introduced.) In New Burlesque, Katharina Bosse takes a trip across the United States to meet and document every proponent of the unabashed renaissance that she can get her camera lens around. Her colorful series of let-it-all-hang-out portraits of Babette la Fave, Kitten DeVille, Kitty Crimson, Ruby Darling, Dirty Martini, D'Milo, Starlet O'Hara, Scarlette Fever, Ursulina, and their many sisters give a wild, wicked stage to the very grown-up darlings of a new century. Whether pictured in a saloon or a kitchen, by the side of a country road or in front of a parking lot, these dames show it just how they please.
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Portraits of Neo-Burlesque Queens.,
By C.G. Gambit (Woodland Hills, CA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: New Burlesque (Paperback)
This book is a photographic tribute to the new Queens of Burlesque. Each portrait captures luscious Burlesque performers in unusual surroundings. The afterward is a scholarly article on the photographs and the neo-burlesque revival, perhaps best appreciated by those with a background in art historical jargon. The photographs are stunning, and this book will likely be a collectors item in years to come, as you cannot see many of these performers in any other books. If you already own "The Bare Truth...Stars of Burlesque from the 40s & 50s" you should invest in this book--think of it as the contemporary companion volume. My only complaint is that the book was too short, and that I wish the format was larger--it would have been a lovely coffee-table book!
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Beautiful... but brief,
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The images in this small book are beautiful photographs of modern burlesque dancers, but I was really hoping for more information than is provided in the very very brief section at the back of the book. Could've done better...
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This book is a good intro but lacks depth or a well rounded view. It is fine for what it is, but look elsewhere for expanded pictures or interviews, etc.
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