Author Nigel Sadler explores the history of erotic images through early twentieth-century postcards.

" Eroticism is a constant presence in modern society, encompassing almost every aspect of our daily lives. It is a product of one of the major commercial and po

Long before pin-ups, Playboy, or the Internet, enterprising Parisians at the turn of the 20th-century turned the relatively new invention of the camera toward t

Examines postcards as images that are carriers of text, and textual correspondence that circulate images across boundaries of class, gender, nationality and rac

Fifty years before Bettie Page became a pinup icon, another beauty was equally celebrated in Europe. Her name was Fernande. While Bettie adorned the pages of me