[Vernacular Photography - Nude Women's Wrestling]

"C— D— Stomped in Nude Pro Wrestling" [Photo Album]

United States: 1980. Very Good. Item #46916

United States: n.d., [ca. 1980]. Octavo (21cm); pictorial QSS 1-hour photo album containing twenty-two (22) original color snapshots (8.5x13cm), with an additional photograph added to the final snapshot as a collage element. Wrappers rather rubbed, old marker annotation to both covers—"Pro Girl Wrestlers in Nude Bowl[?]"—with "C— D— Stomped in Nude Pro Wrestling" in pen to front. Contents about fine. Very Good overall.

A series of twenty-two blurry snapshots taken of a color television set showing a match between two nude pro women wrestlers. Things seem fairly even until the final four shots which culminate in one woman finally knocking out the other. The end shot captures the victor standing over her collapsed opponent while flexing her muscles, over which the compiler, a woman in her fifties or sixties, has glued on a cut-out photo of herself, breasts exposed, enjoying the show.

A crude but humane example of the difficulties of documenting the ephemerality of television that also happens to capture the heyday of a favorite erotic medium which Carmen Electra and pay-per-view tried (and failed) to resuscitate in the mid 2000s.

Price: $300.00