is the author of Alberto Vargas (1978) as well as Vargas: The Esquire Years (1987), Petty: The Classic Pin-up Art of George Petty (Gramercy, 1998), and several articles on Vargas for Playboy and other national magazines.
Reid Stewart Austin
The decade-by-decade narrative essay and captions are by Reid Stewart Austin, an art director at Playboy for 20 years, and author of the bestselling Vargas biography written in 1978 in collaboration with the artist.
Along with these highly sought-after pictures, the book features early unpublished works, unpublished sketches, the celebrated Legacy Nudes, and more.
This is the first book on the works of Vargas in more than a decade. It is also the first to include a generous selection of his vivid original drawings and his finest work for Playboy magazine.