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From: Mark Tomlonson
Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2003 06:25:57 -0400
Subject: [PML1] CC: Sally Todd

In Sally Todd's centerfold (February 1957) she was admiring her new 
frock in the mirror, but now we're the ones that have caught her eye.

This centerfold falls back on an old, old pin-up theme: a nude woman 
admiring herself in a mirror. Mark Gabor in his book illustrates a 
woodcut dating from the fifteenth century on this very theme. (It was a 
soap advertisement). We've seen it in centerfolds before, and this is 
one of its less successful iterations.

The problem is the reflected image is in focus, but the direct image is 
not. That's O.K. some of the time, but here the direct image is neither 
nude nor in focus. This is not a good thing.

In a cynical view, it looks like the art director was so involved in 
arranging the closet door and mirror into a pleasing design (which it 
is) that he forgot to showcase the subject. A less cynical view would 
have the art director deciding that the large out of focus image in the 
main part of the photograph was O.K.

The image in the mirror is a pretty fair pin-up. Sally's over the 
shoulder glance is the best thing about it.

Photographers: David Sutton and Ed Delong

Scoring:
Pin-up: 1.5
Erotic: 1.0
Artistic: 1.0

Overall: 1.2 out of 4.0

Cyber Club Portfolio Photo I like better than the Centerfold: some 
pretty pictures, but no.

http://cyber.playboy.com/members/playmates/files/1957/02/centerfold.html

Mark Tomlonson
Kalamazoo MI