The purveyor of
Vintage Sleaze,
Dim Tool Dim Bulb,
Old Time Religion, and more cool blogs than I could ever think of, Jim Linderman, was kind enough to send me a review copy of his book:
Now, anyone that likes vintage sleaze
and old time religion obviously has a lot in common with me, so this book is a delight to behold. The pictures are just marvelous - beautiful, saucy, dreamy, and delish. You can preview them
here.But there's more than just the photos. Camera clubs, if you don't know about them (and really, why would you?) were often secret and mostly informal. Photographer Rudolph Rossi took and hand-painted all of the photographs that you see in Linderman's book, giving them an otherworldly and often dreamlike quality. As Linderman says in the introduction,
"What sets him apart is that he never capitalized on his work, never profited by selling it to magazines, never played a role in advocating for or against censorship, never forced his beliefs or aims on anyone else. This was his personal, private world, beautiful and exceptional as it was, and for that it matters more than all the digital dolls that parade across our screens every day."
Support independent publishing! Check out Jim's other books, including
Gals Gams Garters,
Shy Shamed Secret Shadowed Hidden, and more. See them all at his main blog,
Dim Tool Dim Bulb.
