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Peter Gowland (1916- 2010) started taking glamor and pin-up photographs of young woman in and around Los Angeles in 1946. In 1954, The New York Times called him 'America's No. 1 Pin-up Photographer' early into his career, and later situated his pictures 'someplace between titillation and art'. Peter Gowland s Girls* presents some 180 works selected from Peter Gowland's estate, which comprises tens of thousands of superb prints and slides, including the most sensational pictures from his unparalleled career as a pin-up photographer and portraits of stars like Joan Collins and Jayne Mansfield.

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Thomas Schirmböck is director of ZEPHYR- Raum für Fotografie. ZEPHYR is one of the very few public spaces for photography and related media in Germany. Peter Gowland (April 3, 1916 - March 17, 2010) was a famous American glamour photographer and actor. He was known for designing and building his own studio equipment and was active professionally for six decades. Gowland shot more than 1,000 magazine covers, mostly glamour shots of female models but also portraits of celebrities including Rock Hudson and Robert Wagner. His covers included Rolling Stone, Playboy, and Modern Photography. He invented elite cameras and equipment that he used to shoot pinups and magazine covers. In the late 1950s, Gowland also invented the twin-lens Gowlandflex camera, which used 4-by-5 inch film for high-quality pictures

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