Pix (magazine)
Pix was an Australian pictorial magazine, which was issued weekly from 1938 to 1972, and published by Associated Newspapers Limited in Sydney, Australia.
History[edit]
The first edition of Pix magazine was published in January 1938, and publication continued until the magazine was merged with the Australian People magazine in 1972.[1] Pix was notable for its irreverent content, its focus on Australian lifestyle and popular culture, and for the inclusion of pin-up style photographs of Australian women.[2]
The editors of the magazine regularly held pin-up girl competitions, and encouraged local women to submit photographs of themselves wearing swimwear for a chance to win prizes.[2] In addition to providing a distraction for Australian servicemen during World War II, the Pix magazine pin-ups are thought to have played a role in the construction of the ideal of the Australian "beach girl" as a representation of Australian womanhood.[2][3]
Digitisation[edit]
Pix Magazine has been digitised by the State Library of New South Wales[4] and is available at Trove hosted by National Library of Australia.
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ National Library of Australia catalogue record for Pix Magazine., National Library of Australia, 2018
- ^ a b c Hamilton, Madeleine (2007). "A Girl Cannot be Beautiful Unless She is Healthy' : Nationalism, Australian Womanhood, and the 'Pix' Beach Girl Quests of World War II". Historicising Whiteness: Transnational Perspectives on the Construction of an Identity: 234–243.
- ^ Hamilton, Madeleine (2007). "Pin-Up Girl : Letters to an Australian Second World War pin-up girl reveal how important her photograph was to lonely servicemen missing home". Wartime. 37: 56–59.
- ^ "The popular tabloid Pix magazine now online!". State Library of NSW. 8 November 2017. Retrieved 15 August 2018.