Alberto Vargas: Works from the Max Vargas Collection

This is an amazing book. Initially, I had intended to just look at the pin-ups to gain inspiration for my photography. However, within moments of reading the text, I was completely gripped by the story of Alberto Vargas and his experiences with Esquire and Playboy magazines. For just the images alone, the book would rate 4 stars, but the wonderful biography pushes it over the edge into 5-star territory for me. There are plenty of images, including glamour nudes, so have no fear--the images are there and they are wonderful. Warning: buying this book will make you want to buy more books with pin-ups. This is a great starting point for pin-up images and for learning about Alberto Vargas, creator of the Varga Girl.

Fell in love with Vargas's work when I got some old 60's era playboys. This book tells his amazing story and shows the progress of his beautiful work through the decades.

The Max Vargas Collection is an excellent collection of his finest commercial works. The illistrations and the commentary offers excellent backgroung on his life and body of work. The only thing I found wanting was the large collection of Vargas art that invariably made it onto the noses of many warbirds in WW2 and Korea. There's little refernece to this.

great book for an awesome price. it's nice to read details about the life of the artist as well as see the evolution of his art.

Not that great of a book. Stick with the esquire and playboy books. THey not only have the best amount of art, but the best value for the money. There's only 100 color prints in this book, and many are repeats from his first vargas book. It's loaded with text like a biography which he already did in his first vargas book. All this being said it's a big book by height and width and the prints are high quality so 3 stars

This is one of the best art books I have ever seen. Every page is museum worthy. Extremely meticulous in detail and very luxurious in its execution!

I thoroughly enjoyed the book and reading about Alberto Vargas, his work, his relationships with his publisher(s) and his wife. The man was an amazing talent. The size of these illustrations were incredible, sorry to see a seam going down the middle ... If I could I'd take them out and hang them in poster frames! I wish there were even more drawings to enjoy.

This book is a compilation of the life and work from alberto Vargas. Very big edition, well written, and with a reasonable price. Sadly, it could have included more of his artwork; but at this moment is the best and biggest compilation from his work that I have found. Very good for a perfect gift or if you are a pin-up fan from the 30's to 70's

A short review of this fine book,the book is quite large in size, which allows some really nice size reproductions. It showcases a large number of his best works.Mostly pre finish paintings,pictures done before the finished version. None the less marvellous, A fine book for anyone interested in the work of Alberto Vargus.

I you loved Playboy magazine in its early days, you always enjoyed viewing a full page of Vargas's work. So classy so beautiful. This book is well worth the price for Playboy magazine lovers, who love art and style as only Vargas can portray.

Ce grand livre est magnifique, avec de nombreuses illustrations en couleurs de ce qui doit faire parti des plus belles oeuvres d'Alberto Vargas. Je le recommande très vivements, j'ai été moi-même très agréablement surpris, je ne m'attendais pas à un livre aussi beau et richement illustré de grandes photos de ses oeuvres !

当初の到着予定から2週間以上も遅れ、その言い訳のメール対応も文章は丁寧なのにこっちの知りたい情報は曖昧で、言い訳も何を言いたいのかが分かりにくく、何度もやり取りして、非常に煩わしい思いをしたので、厳しいかも知れませんがより良くなる様に、この評価です。

Beautiful book, lots of detail, interesting writing, and great selection of works. My only complaint is that it was about half a centimeter too tall to fit on my bookshelf!