The simple answer: We at Retronodernist.com are dedicated to creation pinup photography inspired by the golden age (for pinup at least) of the 1920s to the 1960s.
But thay isn't the whole story. in fact, this is really version 2.5 of the site.
Version 1.0 was a blog about the ideas and what makes us what we are the culture, the media, the arts. It started with manifesto and grew from there. The site never shied from the topic of sex, or for that matter of porn. The first version of the site culminated with a raised fist in the air and the declaration that sex is not the enemy. But the truth is nothing we could say was as interesting as what we could do, especially if it included beautiful women.
So we launched version 2.0, dedicated to creating new pinup photography for our retromodern age (for more on retromodernism, see below). It was time to exorcize a couple of our core beliefs, specifically:
And now we are at version 2.5, a streamlined site that puts the photography front and center, and eases up on the random musings.
Should you find yourself wondering what those earlier versions of the site looked like, perhaps thinking that you are being denied some precious gems; then don't. Trust us when we say that this is the best version to the site to date...
Somewhere along the line there came a general agreement about where nostalgia began. The idea is that each decade becomes nostalgic for the time two decades back. When the 80s came along it seemed as though the 60s were in vogue, though perhaps it was just the media monoculture that made it seem like it was. When the 90s came along a rumbling machine started to kick into gear to try and assure we would get everything from the 70s we never knew we wanted again.
Once the 20th century ended, it was time to call that kind of thinking for the bunkum it was. All one has to do is look around and see that nothing really goes away. It all sticks around in one form or another. Call them scenes, or hobbies, or what you will; it is all still there bubbling beneath the surface. It was foolish to think that there was some kind of retro-zeitgeist.
What the the 00s (the naughties?) different is that it was the first generation to realize this, the first one to embrace it. Its ok to be a punk and to lindy-hop. Go to a car show and you can see Rockabillies and Low-riders uniting over a common love of cars (and to be fair of pretty girls as well). It is the long tail applied to cultural identity.
We see this as the trend for the future. Its a constantly swirling mass of the past and the present forming to make the future. This is what we call Retromodernism.
What's not to love?