Widely acknowledged as
one of the world's leading erotic photographers, for over twenty-five
years Suze Randall had been creating brilliant, stylish portraits
that glorify the sensuality of her models. |
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While she was working
as a fashion model in Europe during the early 1970's, she attracted
press attention with her edgy, erotic portraits of her fellow
models. 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." |
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Larry Flynt's Hustler, where Suze worked
as a staff photographer between 1977 and 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 three 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 girls has. "I had to learn how to do it with posing
and lighting." |
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She now works freelance shooting for top adult
magazines such as Penthouse. Bob Guccione, founder and CEO of
Penthouse magazine, gives photographers the artistic freedom
to shoot whatever they want. In Suze's case, that meant beautiful
women in erotic settings. Suze has provided Penthouse Pet feature
photo layouts for Aria Giovanni, Alexus Winston, Lanny Barby,
Stormy Daniels, Nikita, Sunny Leone,
Lexus Locklear, Lilly Ann, Silvia Saint,
Zdenka, Elizabeth Hilden, Jisel,
Tera Patrick, Julie Strain, Racquel Darrian,
Aimee Sweet, Swan, & Pamela.
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Today America's most prolific
photographer of artistic erotica who works mostly out of her studio
in West Los Angeles, Suze has shot the prestigious British Lamb's
Navy Rum calendar, has done album covers for recording artist such
as Peter Hook (New Order), and Robert Palmer, and a music video
for Capitol Records. |
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She has appeared on numerous
radio and television shows including Tom Snyder (USA), Terry Wogan
(Britain), Mike Walsh (Australia), MNET (S. Africa), and Warren
Olney (KCRW Los Angeles), the E! Channel, Channel 5 (UK) and the
Arts & Entertainment Channel (April 19, 2004). Her interview
on Eye On LA has been one of ABC's most frequently rerun segments.
She has been profiled in Vanity Fair, and the prestigious photographic
trade magazine Photo District News. On February 8, 2004 she appeared
(with photograph) in the New York Times. |
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Her personal website www.suze.net
has a vast library of her finest work that features over 90,000
of her images. The site won Best Photography Site at the AVN awards
in Las Vegas in January, 2000. |
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Her highly successful
video website www.suzevideo.com
offers the largest download display rate on the Internet (2000K/sec).
In addition to its 10-30 minute erotic "mini features"
it offers documentary footage of Suze shooting layouts as well as
in depth interviews with her models. |
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Suze goes DVD! Her new
project is a line of hardcore videos, cutting edge new shows featuring
the hottest pornstars of today and all her famous old classics filmed
in the 1980's. Distributed by Pure Play Media, www.pureplaymedia.com. |
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