The Art of Murray Korman’s ‘Cheesecake’
The photographer showed his subjects as they wanted to be depicted, suggesting poses and positions that delighted them. Women wanted to look like a Korman photograph.
‘Vintage Babes of Broadway: Through the 20th Century Lens of Murray Korman’
By Clyde Adams and Maureen McCabe
The One Big Name Publishing, 180 pages
A Ukrainian-born American immigrant named Murray Korman dominated celebrity photography in New York City between the late 1920s and the early 1950s. His work is often called “cheesecake,” as if all he had in mind was depicting half-dressed beautiful women in provocative postures. He did so, but his photographs say much more about himself and his subjects than the label would suggest.
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