Original Comic Art // Irving Klaw
Irving Klaw (November 9, 1910 – September 3, 1966), self-named the "Pin-up King", was an influential American merchant of sexploitation, fetish, and Hollywood glamour pin-up photographs and films. Like his predecessor, Charles Guyette, who was also a merchant of fetish-themed photographs, Klaw was not a photographer, but a merchandiser of fetish art imagery and films. His great contribution to the world was to commission fetish art (with the likes of models like Bettie Page, June King, Joan Rydell, Jackie Miller, et al.) Irving Klaw is a central figure in what fetish art historian Richard Pérez Seves has designated as the "Bizarre Underground," the pre-1970 fetish art years.
From late 1951 or early 1952 through 1957, Bettie Page posed for photographer Irving Klaw for mail-order photographs with pin-up and BDSM themes, making her the first famous bondage model. Klaw also used Page in dozens of short, black-and-white 8mm and 16mm "specialty" films, which catered to specific requests from his clientele. These silent one-reel featurettes showed women clad in lingerie and high heels, acting out fetishistic scenarios of abduction, domination, and slave-training; bondage, spanking, and elaborate leather costumes and restraints were included periodically. Page alternated between playing a stern dominatrix, and a helpless victim bound hand and foot.
These photographs came from the publisher of Bettie Page's fanzine and were obtained from the Irving Klaw Files Auctions.
Featured Pages
Bettie Page Sexy Pin-Up 4" x 5" B&W Vintage Irving Klaw Photo - Nude Bending Over w Toy Dog
Price: $75
Bettie Page Sexy Pin-Up 4'' x 5'' B&W Vintage Irving Klaw Photo #21 - Nude Reading Sexology
Price: $75
Bettie Page Sexy Pin-Up 4'' x 5'' B&W Vintage Irving Klaw Photo #341 - Sitting Dominatrix
Price: $75
Bettie Page Sexy Pin-Up 4'' x 5'' B&W Vintage Irving Klaw Photo #559 - Spanked by Babe
Price: $250 On Hold
Bettie Page Sexy Pin-Up 4'' x 5'' B&W Vintage Irving Klaw Photo #560 - Bettie Spanking w brush
Price: $250
Bettie Page Sexy Pin-Up 4'' x 5'' B&W Vintage Irving Klaw Photo #560 - Bettie Spanking w brush
Price: $250 On Hold
Bettie Page Sexy Pin-Up 4'' x 5'' B&W Vintage Irving Klaw Photo #7575 - Bettie Spanked by Babe
Price: $250
Bettie Page Sexy Pin-Up 4'' x 5'' B&W Vintage Irving Klaw Photo #7581- Bettie Leopard Spanked
Price: $250
Bettie Page Sexy Pin-Up 4'' x 5'' B&W Vintage Irving Klaw Photo #7586 - Bettie Brush Spanked
Price: $250
Bettie Page Sexy Pin-Up 4'' x 5'' B&W Vintage Irving Klaw Photo #838 - Bondage & Girdle
Price: $250 On Hold
Bettie Page Sexy Pin-Up 4'' x 5'' B&W Vintage Irving Klaw Photo #840 - Tied Bound Gag Jungle
Price: $250
Bettie Page Sexy Pin-Up 4'' x 5'' B&W Vintage Irving Klaw Photo #841 - Bound Tied Gag by Babe
Price: $250
Bettie Page Sexy Pin-Up 4'' x 5'' B&W Vintage Irving Klaw Photo #842 - X Gag Bondage Tied
Price: $250
Bettie Page Sexy Pin-Up 4'' x 5'' B&W Vintage Irving Klaw Photo #849 - Suspension Bound & Gag
Price: $250
Bettie Page Sexy Pin-Up 4'' x 5'' B&W Vintage Irving Klaw Photo #852 - Arms Suspension Bondage
Price: $250
Bettie Page Sexy Pin-Up 4'' x 5'' B&W Vintage Irving Klaw Photo #853 - Suspension Bondage
Price: $250
Bettie Page Sexy Pin-Up 4'' x 5'' B&W Vintage Irving Klaw Photo #854 - Bettie Bound Tied Gag
Price: $250
Bettie Page Sexy Pin-Up 4'' x 5'' B&W Vintage Irving Klaw Photo #855 - X Suspension Bondage
Price: $250
Bettie Page Sexy Pin-Up 4'' x 5'' B&W Vintage Irving Klaw Photo #W8-2 - Bettie Bound Gag Standing
Price: $250
Bettie Page Sexy Pin-Up 4''' x 5'' B&W Vintage Irving Klaw Photo #7579 - Knee Spanked by Babe
Price: $250
Bettie Page Sexy Pin-Up 8'' x 10'' B&W Vintage Irving Klaw Photo #102 - Sexy Striped Dress
Price: $450 On Hold
Bettie Page Sexy Pin-Up 8'' x 10'' B&W Vintage Irving Klaw Photo #4524 - T Bound Standing
Price: $450
Bettie Page Sexy Pin-Up 8'' x 10'' B&W Vintage Irving Klaw Photo #4526 - Standing Bound Gag
Price: $450
Bettie Page Sexy Pin-Up 8'' x 10'' B&W Vintage Irving Klaw Photo #4527 - Bound Gag by Blonde
Price: $450
Bettie Page Sexy Pin-Up 8'' x 10'' B&W Vintage Irving Klaw Photo #47 - Dancing Butt Stockings
Price: $450 On Hold
Bettie Page Sexy Pin-Up 8'' x 10'' B&W Vintage Irving Klaw Photo #56 - Sexy Dancing Lingerie Dancing
Price: $450
Bettie Page Sexy Pin-Up 8'' x 10'' B&W Vintage Irving Klaw Photo #7500 - Jungle Bound to Chair
Price: $450 On Hold
Bettie Page Sexy Pin-Up 8'' x 10'' B&W Vintage Irving Klaw Photo #7681 - Lingerie Backside
Price: $450
Bettie Page Sexy Pin-Up 8'' x 10'' B&W Vintage Irving Klaw Photo #80 - Leopard Print Chained
Price: $450
Bettie Page Sexy Pin-Up 8'' x 10'' B&W Vintage Irving Klaw Photo #BP-70 - Bound Gag by Babe
Price: $450
Bettie Page Sexy Pin-Up 8'' x 10'' B&W Vintage Irving Klaw Photo #D-745 - Lingerie Dancing
Price: $450
Bettie Page Sexy Pin-Up 8'' x 10'' B&W Vintage Irving Klaw Photo #HH-183 - Dancing Stockings
Price: $450
Bettie Page Sexy Pin-Up 8'' x 10'' Color Irving Klaw Photo - Striped Red White Bathing Suit
Price: $75
Bettie Page Sexy Pin-Up FULL Nude 4'' x 5'' B&W Vintage Irving Klaw Photo (EX) Standing in Shirt
Price: $75
Bettie Page Sexy Pin-Up FULL Nude 4'' x 5'' B&W Vintage Irving Klaw Photo (VG+) Hand on Breast
Price: $75
Bettie Page Sexy Pin-Up FULL Nude 4'' x 5'' B&W Vintage Irving Klaw Photo - Sitting Shirt Open
Price: $75
Bettie Page Sexy Pin-Up LOT of 11 Nude 4'' x 5'' B&W Irving Klaw Photos Bondage (EX) Vintage
Price: $200
Bettie Page Sexy Pin-Up Nude 4" x 5" B&W Vintage Irving Klaw Photo (EX) Bent Over No Pants
Price: $75
Bettie Page Sexy Pin-Up Nude 4'' x 5'' B&W Vintage Irving Klaw Photo (EX) Reading in Chair
Price: $75
Bettie Page Sexy Pin-Up Nude 4'' x 5'' B&W Vintage Irving Klaw Photo - On Side in Stockings Reading
Price: $75
Bettie Page Sexy Pin-Up Nude 4'' x 5'' B&W Vintage Irving Klaw Photo - On Stomach Stockings
Price: $75
