To: pml1@yahoogroups.com From: Mark Tomlonson Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 09:48:45 -0500 Subject: [PML1] CC: Paige Young In Paige Young's centerfold (November 1968) she's putting forward the classic proposition: I'll scratch your back if you scratch mine. That may not be exactly what she means, but I know some body part is involved. I want to like this centerfold, I really do. As much as I natter on about composition, how lines meet up, angles that give power to the composition and all that rot, you'd think I'd be ecstatic here. But I'm not. This centerfold has balance and form out the whazoo but it never coalesces into a whole. It's like the basement rock guitarist who can play every note just like Stevie Vaughn did, but the music eludes him. In short, this centerfold is muscle-bound by technique. Paige looks great. The pose really shows of her youthful, soft figure. It's swimming uphill against light that owes too much to catalog shots. Arny Freytag says centerfold photography has a lot in common with that, and Paige's skin seems more like ham in both the scan and my copy. My last complaint is Paige's tongue. I don't think it works. It makes her look like a bad actress instead of a sexy woman. Photographer: Peter Gowland Scoring: Pin-up: 2.0 Erotic: 2.5 Artistic: 1.0 Overall: 2.0 out of 4.0 Cyber Club Portfolio Photo I like better than the Centerfold: # 22 http://cyber.playboy.com/members/playmates/files/1968/11/centerfold-med.html http://cyber.playboy.com/members/playmates/files/1968/11/22-lrg.html Update: Let me expand a bit on the "Paige looks great" statement. You could apply any superlative you'd want and, with the exception of her tongue, it would fit. Not a big fan of the tongue thing, but I love the coyness in her expression. The pose is a stunner. I especially like the area between her breasts and navel. Everything else is major-league about Paige. Revised scoring: Pin-up: 3.5 Erotic: 3.0 Artistic: 0.5 Overall: 2.9 out of 4.0 Mark Tomlonson Kalamazoo MI