Pamela Anderson in Pictures: Photographs by Stephen Wayda [Paperback]

Bibi Jordan (Author), Stephen Wayda (Author, Photographer)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 1996

Millions of Baywatch fans equate Pamela Anderson with youth, beauty, and sex--an image enhanced by her principal photographer, Playboy's Stephen Wayda. Now, from his private collection of more than 10,000 never-before-seen photos, Wayda has assembled 300 color and black-and-white shots to create this stunning portfolio.

Product Details

• Paperback: 158 pages
• Publisher: General Pub Group (April 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1881649946
• ISBN-13: 978-1881649946
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 9 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #676,464 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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32 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars PAMELA-TRULY A MODERN-DAY HEROINE/BEAUTY, March 1, 1999

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James Bush([e-mail]) (Wisconsin) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pamela Anderson in Pictures: Photographs by Stephen Wayda (Paperback)

Pamela Anderson in Pictures will be a classic about photography as well as personalities. PAMELA ANDERSON-THE MOST EXTRAORDINARILY GORGEOUS BEAUTIFUL, SEXY AND TALENTED WOMEN OF THE UNIVERSE. I have Never seen so many GREAT photos of a Beautiful Lady all in one place. The penultimate PAM book!!

18 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars For Pamela Anderson fans only!, March 30, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Pamela Anderson in Pictures: Photographs by Stephen Wayda (Paperback)

Usual Pamela Anderson, includes herself and not much more. She displays everything in the here and now, she's a real material girl. If your a fan of hers then go for the book, otherwise you won't enjoy it. She communicates her problems as they exist and sometimes doesn't know when to stop. Her life with Tommy Lee and her life without Tommy Lee is explained. Theres more to her than just this book.

27 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars The Making Of a Monster, March 30, 1998

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Chris A. Bolton ([e-mail]) (Eugene, Oregon) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pamela Anderson in Pictures: Photographs by Stephen Wayda (Paperback)

You have to look at it as it was meant to be seen. Compared to, say, the literary works of John Updike or the photography of Helmut Newton, this book is trash-bin material. On the other hand, if you're a Pamela Lee fanatic, you will probably erect a shine and this book will be the centerpiece, surrounded by a display of candles in busty-women shapes.

The interesting thing about this book is watching the progression/transmogrification of Pamela. She starts out very attractive and shapely, and somewhat sweet and innocent; there are even close-up shots of her face in which her blemishes haven't been masked by excessive make-up or airbrushed out, and here you can see a large numbers of freckles spackling her face. It makes you remember that Pamela was once a real person, a sweet-faced and attractive woman who tried very hard in interviews to sound brainy and far above her designation as a human Barbie doll.

Then came the implants, which augmented her breasts to unbelievable--and indeed, to this viewer's eyes--grotesque proportions. Was it necessary? Absolutely not. (Is it ever? Not even once.) Then the plucked eyebrows, and the tattoos, and the tight leather "Barb Wire" outfits, and the marriage to Tommy Lee... and the result? Pamela's looks and brains plunged out the window, holding hands and shrieking all the way down.

Today Pamela Anderson Lee is a gross caricature, an online joke, and an object of fixation only for those who prefer human beings be manufactured of plastic and silicone. The latter half of the book reflects Pamela's transformation from human being to human sexual monstrosity. Her continued popularity in various, often shadowy, circles is a testament only to the depraved mind-set of a select and lonely few.

This isn't exactly a critical study, however; nor is it precisely a piece of fan fluff from a photographer who seems to have more or less made his name solely from having the good fortune of shooting a star before she reached the stratosphere. It is, after all, a picture book, and a fairly well-made one at that. But in and around the pictures, in the margins and around the eyes and chest of its subject matter, one finds an interesting, if depressing, pictorial study of a woman in a steep decline of her life, body, and senses--a sex machine running on automatic. If there are any women out there thinking they aren't "adequate" because they don't conform to the "ideal" sexual designs men so often inflict upon the opposite gender, one gander at the devolution of Pamela from attractive human to awful automaton ought to rebuild some self-esteem and render the point more than moot.