This is an antique & original c. late 1920s – 1930 complete, unpaginated edition of Artists' Models Notebook magazine (Volume 1, Number 1). This spicy pulp-era publication from the hedonistic roaring twenties features art photos – all by the talented and prolific photographer Edwin Bower Hesser.

This publication was ostensibly for "commercial artists and art students" however, these types of magazines were the precursors to the nudie girlie magazines of the following decades.This magazine features page after page of eye-catching pictorialist photography by Hesser including artistic and avant-garde poses from bronzed and gilded beauties, dreamy outdoor woodland nymph images of a blonde Jean Harlow look-a-like model, and snappy Jazz Age studio portraits of bubbly models frolicking with balloons.

This antique magazine is certainly a page turner! Hesser, a talented and sought after theatre and Hollywood portraitist, was no stranger to these types of periodicals. According to David S. Shields, McClintock Professor, University of South Carolina, Hesser "realized that the real money in photography lay in periodical publication, not in the service of film publicity offices or stage PR men. He saw particular opportunity in the subject which the 1920s stage explored with great daring, but the screen, even in pre-code days, could not pursue: female undress. Throughout the late 1920s, he published Edwin Bower Hesser's Arts Monthly, and other titles, exploiting the association betweens art and nudity, and sold it to an anonymous readership of 'art students.

'"Measures 5 1/4" x 7 1/2" – complete and unpaginated.

CONDITION: This antique magazine is in very good condition. It does show some wear, but given its age it is a remarkable piece of ephemera! There is a tear on the front cover, scattered edge wear, and general storage/handling wear.