Dian Hanson?s: The History of Men?s Magazines. Vol. 1: From 1900 to Post-WWII

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Dian Hanson?s: The History of Men?s Magazines. Vol. 1: From 1900 to Post-WWII. How Paris and WWI spawned men?s magazines

The first commercial camera was introduced in 1839. By 1865 technology enabled ordinary men to create photographic negatives, and they immediately began taking and distributing photos of naked women. The French led the way, and it was the French who produced the first nude magazines in 1880, as souvenirs for patrons of Parisian music halls. Newsstand magazines followed, and the elegant La Vie Parisienne (Paris Life), full of sexy fiction and illustrations, debuted in 1914. It might all have stayed in Paris if not for WWI, when German and American troops carried the magazin