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| LeRoy Neiman: Femlin | 
 enlarge | Authors: Leroy Neiman, Hugh Hefner
Publisher: M Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (1 reviews)
Sales Rank: 683838
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 186
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 12.1 x 9.3 x 0.9
ISBN: 1595821384
Dewey Decimal Number: 709
EAN: 9781595821386
ASIN: 1595821384
Publication Date: November 28, 2007
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Product Description
When LeRoy Neiman and Hugh Hefner met in the early 1950s, while Neiman was doing women's high fashion drawings and Hefner was a copywriter in a Chicago department store, neither could have predicted that a twelve-inch woman called Femlin was waiting in the wings. But Femlin is mischievous. She's spunky. And she knows how to strike while the iron is hot. Fifty years later, Femlin is still going strong and sassy. Neiman has drawn her for every issue of Playboy for the last half-century, showing her at play, at sport, and at her ease. Wearing her trademark heels, stockings, and gloves - and not much else - Femlin has become a beloved icon of Playboy... and a celebrity in her own right. M Press is honored to present 50 years of LeRoy Neiman's Femlin drawings, some of which have never before seen in print. With text and images by Neiman, and an afterword by Playboy founder and publisher Hugh M. Hefner, the Femlin is shown in all her flattering historical light. As she says "It's about time I got my own book!"
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Femlin, an American icon for 50 years. December 15, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Femlin is a fun-loving pixie who first appeared in the pages of Playboy in 1957, and has been in every issue since then. In that time, she has come to represent the magazine perhaps as much as the famous "bunny" shape.
This book highlights various moments in her career, with some notes by the artist LeRoy Neiman, and an afterword by Hugh Hefner.
The book is primarily composed of hundreds of illustrations which have appeared in the magazine, divided into chapters each with a certain theme, for example, Art Lover (where she admires or sometimes mimics famous works of art), A Femlin Zodiac (in which she interacts with or even becomes the reprentation for a particular sign), Sports (Femlin demonstrates her own athletic abilities by playing with various pieces of sporting equipment), Cocktail Hour and At the Table (where she plays with food and eating utensils), etc.
Most of the illustrations are black and white, as they originally appeared. A few images do use color as accents, and one full page image shows Femlin herself in full color, the only image ever to do so.
Femlin is extemely expressive, which is all the more amazing because she is drawn with so few strokes, and so little detail. Her face, for example is delineated primarily her full eyelashes and her broad, full lips. Yet she can say SO much with just these things, conveying a full range of emotion.
Similarly, she isn't actually "anatomically correct", some details are not present, others simply suggested. Basically, she is composed of five black shapes, consisting of her hair, her two gloves, and her two stockings/shoes, plus her facial features, nipples, and in later years, her pubic triangle.
Even drawn so simply, she displays a distinctive personality, playful, inquisitive, sensitive, and affectionate, but never, ever, vulgar or obscene.
I found it interesting to see how she adapted to changes in fashion and culture through the past half-century, and a fun book to leaf through.
Readers who appreciate artistic nudity or examples of the idealized female form are likely to enjoy this book.
Printed on thick, glossy paper and bound in a high-quality hardcover, this book is a keeper.
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