Post-depression America was in desperate need of a defining iconography that would lift it out of the black and white doldrums, and it came in the form of Gil Elvgren`s Technicolor fantasies of the American dream. His technique involved photographing models and then painting them into hyper-reality. Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге Gil Elvgren: All his Glamorous American Pin-ups (Louis K. Meisel, Charles G. Martignette)