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Books: The Bettie Page Pictures That Were Almost Destroyed

By David Schonauer   Monday September 12, 2016

Irving Klaw’s black-and-white images of Bettie Page — aka the queen of bondage — have become American classics. But when Klaw shot them in the 1950s the photos drew the ire of the Kefauver Hearings of the Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency. A worried Klaw burned his prints and negatives …

Read the whole story at The Washington Post.


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