Pulp Fictioned - STEVEN R. TABOR

Pulp Fictioned

Where do ideas come from?

"Aw, he just stole from me. But I steal from everybody. Why, I’m the biggest song stealer there ever was."

----Woody Guthrie

Photographers invariably base their work on images that they've seen. In this series, images of models that I've shot are superimposed on mosaics of appropriated covers from 1950s -1970s Pulp magazines.

The detective Pulps of the 1950s-1970s embraced the adage that "sex sells". They would often decorate their covers with pictures of buxom young women, many of whom were in the act of being rescued by an avenging hero.

If you'd like to see the full series, download the PDF catalogue here.