1990 marked the first 12 months that Playboy's Playmate of the Year was an African-American lady, Renee Tenison. Historically, Black ladies in pin-up are nonetheless not as frequent as their white counterparts. However, the current revival of pin-up fashion has propelled many Black women today to dabble with and make works based mostly on the classic pin-up look to create their very own standards of magnificence. In Jim Linderman's self-published book, Secret History of the Black Pin Up,[35] he describes the lives and experiences of African-American pin-up fashions. Beautiful models in pinup poses became the talk of the town within the mid-20th century, with classic posters remaining well-liked to this present day. The Twenties and Thirties saw the rise of “glamour” photography, which was characterised by highly-stylized images of girls in elegant and provocative poses.