Peter Basch

Light and the Nude The currently popular trend that has the experts telling you and me how-to-do-it leaves me cold. I prefer to explore the more complex — and therefore more satisfying — question: “why?” But the one area where I feel that an exploration of purely technical aspects is permissible is lighting. When coping…

Tera Patrick

Tera Patrick wasn’t always Tera Patrick. Once upon a time she was a gangly, teenaged bookworm named Linda Ann Hopkins, obsessed with serial killers and Marilyn Mpnroe and determined to make men all over the world desire her. And she succeeded: Today she sits atop the porn world, has graced the cover of every major…

Helmut Newton

Interview January 1986. Vol 16 Iss 1, by David Fahey Helmut Newton, along with a handful of other photographers, has defined the contemporary fashion photograph. Once labeled the “King of Kink” by Time magazine, he is obsessed by a desire to work and to explore new ideas. His distinctive style has been the source of…

Surrey Marshe. The girl in the centerfold

The Evening News of the Tonawandas, from the 12-19th of January 1970. Solveig Mellomborgen was 18, the youngest of three children in a Norwegian farm family when she came to the United States in 1965 with dreams of becoming a famous movie star or model. She worked for a time as a domestic and a…

Pompeo Posar

After 25 years of shootings Playboy gatefolds, he has the job most envied by American males. by David Roberts Pompeo Posar opened the locked door of the Playboy studio to let me in. I had my notebook in one hand, briefcase in the other, but Posar grasped me by the the elbow and said in…

Serge Jacques

Paris Photo Beauty. No. 71 (1966) Born in Toulouse in 1927, Serge Jacques became interested in photography as a hobby while still a student at the Lycee Carnot (high school) in his home town. He later went on to the Ecole Suisse in Geneva, where he studied professional photography. After further studies in Munich, he…

Patrick Lichfield

‘Being a people photographer means making a study of people as well as of technique. Pretty well all people photographers are good communicators—it’s no use trying to become one if you aren’t. When I’m photographing anyone-whether it’s fashion, a portrait or advertising—I keep up a non-stop chatter. I love anecdotes. They stay in my mind,…

Marilyn Monroe by Antonio Caballero

On February 21, 1961, Marilyn flew from Miami International Airport to Mexico City on the second leg of her furniture treasure hunt. Eunice Murray (a sixty- year-old woman with some experience in looking after psychiatric patients) had visited Mexico a week earlier and had returned with names of dealers, galleries, collectors, and shops for Monroe…

John Rawlings

The signature ‘‘Rawlings’’ under a photograph may well be considered an abbreviation for “creative fashion photography.” To those who have followed the trend in fashion photography with a critical eye, the signature is completely unnecessary. All you need look for in order to recognize a Rawlings picture are these qualities — subtle color harmony, inevitable…

Suze Randall

Swinging both sides by Suze The more-than-intimate memoirs of Suze Randall, the English ex-nurse who became a top nude model and then a leading pinup photographer. In these excerpts from her sizzling autobiography, she reveals the truth about sex and the modeling world, details the bisexual perks she’s enjoyed on both sides of the camera…

Alice and Peter Gowland

by Steven Sullivan, Tease! No. 4, 1995 For generations of American boys during the era from 1910 to the 1940s, the literary character of Tom Swift served as a shining role model for his brilliant inventions and bold sense of adventure. He offered readers the conviction that with enough imagination and energy, anything was possible….

Evelyn West. The lowdown on glamour photographers

Queen of burlesque presents her candid opinion about seven of nation’s top-name theatrical photographers I spend at least $5,000 a year for photos of myself. But don’t get me wrong, it’s not conceit—it’s business. As a featured strip artist, I have to keep my lace and figure in the public eye. And to give them…