Presented here are 125 burlesque queens and belly dancing stars from the 1950s and 1960s portrayed in 8x10 glossy booking photos. These attention-grabbing and sometimes startling photos are the publicity shots that dancers handed out to booking agents, managers, theatres, press, and fans. The stars include Crystal Blue, Toni Rose The Glow Girl, Bella Dona, Marlo Brando, Sunny Day The Butterfly Goddess, Dixie Evans The Marilyn Monroe of Burlesque, Lala Jazir, and Dusty Summers Las Vegas' Only Nude Magician. Learn a brief history of Burlesque and its performers in the transition from 1950s...

This collection of 200+ portraits of pierced, tattooed, and heavily body-modified people is a celebration by photographer Efrain John Gonzalez. In this colorful volume Gonzalez, as an artist, captures both the spirit of the many individuals and the rich uniqueness of their fantastic tattoos, piercings, brandings, cuttings, subdermal implants, and radical transformations. Many of the images of this great tattoo art and extreme individuals were photographed during the past decade during the New York City Tattoo Convention at the Roseland Ballroom. Gonzalez has a reputation as one of America's...