Description: We can combine shipping for multiple orders. On larger, multiple listing orders, the combined shipping charge may exceed the listed shipping price for a single listing. FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY, COPYRIGHT IS REGISTERED AND RETAINED BY PHOTOGRAPHER SUZE RANDALL. ABOUT THE PHOTOGRAPHER: Suze Randall is widely acknowledged as one of the world’s leading erotic photographers, for over thirty years Suze Randall had been creating brilliant, stylish portraits that glorify the sensuality of her models, work that was praised by the late Helmut Newton who also photographed her. Suze attributes her famous “bedside manner” to her training as a nurse at London’s prestigious St. George’s hospital where she qualified both as a RN and a midwife. Forsaking nursing in the late 1960’s for nude and later fashion modeling, she attracted press attention with her edgy, erotic portraits of her fellow models which included supermodel Jerry Hall. In 1975 Playboy’s Hugh Hefner was so struck by her photographs of a lovely Norwegian model that he flew both model and photographer to Los Angeles. For the next two years Suze worked as a staff photographer for Playboy under the supervision of the magazine’s brilliant West Coast editor Marilyn Grabowski. “She was tough and demanding,” Suze recalls, “but since I was the only female photographer on staff she took me under her wing and influenced my sense of style as far as costume and sets were concerned.” Because Suze was the life of the party, she was on the Playboy Mansion West’s “gang list” where she was known at “the flasher” due to her provocative dancing. In 1977 Dell published her tell-all memoirs, written with her husband Humphry Knipe, which included the two years they partied at the Playboy Mansion. “Although I told Hef’s social secretary what we were doing she didn’t take it seriously – I was just another air head with inflated ideas,” Suze recalls. But when Hefner saw the book excerpted in England’s gossipy News of the World newspaper, he hit the roof. But he didn’t have her frog marched out of the mansion until Larry Flynt published a self portrait of her in Hustler headlined “Playboy photographer shows pink.” “We felt like Adam and Eve thrown out of Paradise,” Suze recalls. “Luckily, shortly before my fall from grace, I found Larry Flynt sitting alone and ignored at the Mansion’s outside bar. He commissioned me to do a self-portrait layout (I had already shot myself for Playboy) and published it with the cover line ‘Playboy Photographer Shows Pink’. This got Hef even madder at me than writing the book and he now also banned me from shooting for Playboy.” Larry Flynt immediately signed Suze up as a Hustler staff photographer. Her two-year stint there (1977-1979) was another early influence on her work. She attributes the vividness and clarity that are such outstanding features of her photographic technique to her years in “boot camp” as she refers to her Hustler years. “Larry wouldn’t allow any of his photographers to shoot with diffusion, he wanted the viewer to see every pore in the model’s skin. That made it a challenge to hide flaws that almost every girl has. I had to learn how to do it with posing and lighting.” She then went on to work freelance for top adult magazines such as Penthouse. Bob Guccione, founder of Penthouse, gave photographers the artistic freedom to shoot whatever they wanted. In Suze’s case, that meant erotic women in beautiful settings. Suze has appeared on numerous radio and television shows including Tom Snyder (USA), Terry Wogan (Britain), Mike Walsh (Australia), MNET (South Africa), and Warren Olney (KCRW Los Angeles), the E! Channel, Britain’s Channel 5 and the Arts & Entertainment Channel. Her Eye On LA interview was one of ABC’s most frequently rerun segments. She has been profiled in Vanity Fair, and the prestigious photographers’ trade magazine Photo District News. On February 8, 2004 she appeared (with photograph) in the New York Times business section. She is featured introducing the first segment of the HBO series Pornucopia.
Price: 12 USD
Location: Wilmette, Illinois
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