jordan@ucbvax.ARPA (Jordan Hayes) (07/03/85)
In (net.singles) article <11362@brl-tgr.ARPA> wmartin@brl-bmd.UUCP writes: > I've subscribed for about 20 years. My current subscription expires in > January. I am letting it lapse. Not only did I recently read that > Playboy is soon (October?) to de-emphasize nude female portraiture, > such as by eliminating the ceterfold, but I have become more and more > dissatisfied with what the magazine is providing for my money. I suppose that's too bad. There are some fine photographers working for Playboy, doing some pretty honest art (although I've never seen Lucien Clerge or Robert Farber or even Robert Mapplethorpe do anything within those pages...) with the female nude. There's a good article in the April 1985 American Photographer on Pompeo Posar, 25 year veteran of shooting Playboy gateways ("centerfolds") -- check it out for an inside view of playboy "shoots" ------------ Jordan Hayes jordan@ucb-vax.BERKELEY.EDU UC Berkeley ucbvax!jordan +1 (415) 835-8767 37' 52.29" N 122' 15.41" W