Our cameras might have eclipsed these of the past but the past kept all the style. There's something intrinsically beautiful about vintage camera ads, a sweet naivety to the details of 'modern' tech advancements of the 70's. So far, Field and Stream is not in the bidding.An offshoot of Penthouse Magazine which includes but goes beyond the erotic to focus on photography, photo-essays, relevant interviews, cameras and equipment. With so many nude pictures of Madonna floating around, it might be easier to list the publications that haven't been offered the shots. Goodman said he had sold 250,000 copies at $2.50 each. Late yesterday, independent publisher Jeffrey Goodman told United Press International he beat Playboy and Penthouse with a special fan magazine called "Madonna," featuring 10 nude photos that came from a low-budget film the rock star did five years ago. "We certainly expect to be sold out in a matter of days," said Playboy's Norris. "I think there is sufficient interest to absorb the copies that both magazines have put out," said Guccione. ![]() In fact, the only thing they seem to agree on is that all this hoopla will only increase sales. If only the magazines could claim the same. Madonna issued a statement yesterday saying, "I'm not ashamed of anything." The Penthouse pictures, according to Guccione, are "of Madonna alone, fully nude, very explicit. "They're not gynecological," said Playboy's Norris. Playboy would not reveal what it paid for the pictures, which both magazines said were explicit, but tasteful. "They were turned down because it was like scraping the bottom of the barrel," sniffed Guccione. "When you see the pictures, you'll see ours are far superior," said Playboy's Norris.īut Guccione said Penthouse turned up its nose at the Playboy photographs, taken by two New York photographers, Lee Friedlander and Martin Schreiber. Not surprisingly, both publications claim to have the best shots. "We paid more for them than we have ever paid for anything." "I'll tell you this, we paid more for them than we paid for Vanessa," he said, referring to the magazine's nude layout of former Miss America Vanessa Williams, which forced her to relinquish her crown just about this time a year ago. ![]() ![]() Guccione would not disclose how much Stone received for the photographs. "We followed our normal procedures for publishing. "Obviously, we got the pictures first," countered Playboy's Norris. They came to us first," said Guccione, saying he was offered two sets of nude Madonna pictures "three or four weeks ago." Which magazine was the first to obtain the photos? Just when things were threatening to die down, a new feud erupted. The magazines are expected to be available in Washington by tomorrow. They did and so did Penthouse, beginning to distribute its five million copies for $4 each (an increase of 50 cents over the usual price) in and around Chicago and New York as fast as they came from the binderies. Playboy scrambled and called its distributors, telling them to get the 5 million copies of the $3.50 magazine - 1 million copies over its usual run - on the stands yesterday. Penthouse upped the ante, saying it would be on the stands July 11. Playboy skirmished, moving its publication date up to July 16. Guccione counterattacked, saying Penthouse's pictures would be published in its September issue, which would be on the stands before its rival. Two days later, Playboy announced it also had purchased nude photographs of Madonna, who earlier this year rocketed to stardom with her album "Like a Virgin." A spokesman for the magazine said it planned to publish the 14-page black-and-white layout in its September issue, scheduled to go on sale July 29. Guccione said the 17-page color and black-and-white layout would be published in an unspecified issue. The feud ignited last Sunday when Guccione announced that Penthouse had obtained sexually explicit photos of Madonna, taken in 1979 by photographer Bill Stone, when the rock star was a figure model in New York. "The evidence is that the magazine is on the newsstands," Penthouse publisher Bob Guccione claimed yesterday, declining to give the specific jump-off time. Playboy, according to Norris, hit newsstands at La Guardia, JFK International Airport and all of Long Island "early this morning. "We beat 'em," Playboy spokesman Elizabeth Norris said yesterday from the magazine's Chicago headquarters. But the New York Post may have scooped them both when it hit the Manhattan sidewalks yesterday morning with a grainy, topless photo of the 26-year-old singing sensation, courtesy of Playboy. Who launched the first strike at newsstands yesterday with skin pix of rock star Madonna? They're calling it the "nude feud," but it's more like the navel battle of the century.
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