The extraordinary history of the Pirelli calendars began in 1963 when the Pirelli tire company created a calendar featuring pin-up models as a promotional piece to send to its top customers as a gift for the closing year. Every year since, the company has called upon world-renowned photographers such as Richard Avedon, Mario Testino, Herb Ritts, Norman Parkinson, Bruce Weber, and Annie Leibovitz to photograph the world’s most beautiful women, including Iman, Cindy Crawford, Naomi Campbell, Sophia Loren, Naomi Watts, and Penelope Cruz. It has continued to generate publicity for its exclusivity; a huge public clamors for the calendar, but it is only available to a very privileged list of corporate customers and VIPs.
A product of the cultural revolution of the 1960’s, the Pirelli calendar has shaken the world with the audacity, sensuality, and innovation of its content. The images stretch the parameters of sensual fantasy and fabulous photography, but their subtlety and quality also establish the calendar as a paradigm of its genre and a coveted collector’s item.
This book contains all the photographs of the calendars from 1964-2007, the never-published calendar of 1963, as well as intimate behind-the-scene photographs. The stunning imagery is accompanied by a comprehensive text, which traces not only the evolution of the calendar but also the history of photography in the past forty years.
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Italo Zannier is Professor of History of Photography in Venice and author of numerous books.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Thick large quarto. 12 1/4 x 11 3/4" 639pp. Every year since, the company has called upon world-renowned photographers such as Richard Avedon, Mario Testino, Herb Ritts, Norman Parkinson, Bruce Weber, and Annie Leibovitz to photograph the world's most beautiful women, including Iman, Cindy Crawford, Naomi Campbell, Sophia Loren, Naomi Watts, and Penelope Cruz. Pictorial cover, lacking dust jacket. Very heavy book- Media shipping only- no overseas. Seller Inventory # 56437
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Fine copy in hardcover with near fine jacket. Tiny tear at base of front cover fold. Seller Inventory # 051381
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639 S., geb., Quart, Schutzumschlag, unzählige Abbildungen, wohlerhaltenes Exemplar, Seller Inventory # 15438
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Hardcover. Folio. Condition: Very Good. 1st U.S. edition. This translated edition has pictorial boards that remain clean with straight edges and pointed corners. Spine is uncreased with softly bumped head. Text block is straight with foxed edges. Binding is firm. 639p. End pages are foxed, but interior is unmarked with crisp pages through out filled with many colored photos through out. Seller Inventory # 105267
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First American Edition, 1st Printing. 639p. An oversize hardcover book in fine condition with a near-fine dustwrapper. The book is clean and tight. The wrapper has a one-inch slit in the rear flap fold, plus a few tiny chips off the bottom edge. Still largely intact and glossy. A lightly handled copy, near-fine overall. Photo-filled celebration of "The Cal." Measures approx. 12.5" x 11.75". Seller Inventory # 317488
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