My intention for this thread is that it be used for noting hopefully useful information about skin or porn (mainly magazine) photographers--& please note this is in the
vintage section. I'm particularly interested in any evidence or observations regarding AKAs or aliases for such photographers. I do
not want to find out photographers' "real" names but I do want to find information relevant to their work--e.g. that photographer X published under that name in mag. A but often under the name Y in mag. B, and so forth.
Please do
not simply post examples of photographer's work--there are other threads for that such as
here (vintage) and
here (modern). Instead what I envisage is posts primarily concerned with
information and possibly some scans or links to any relevant evidence, whether photographic or otherwise. As such it may be fairly "rough-and-ready" which is why I've called it a "notebook".
Please note that the types of evidence I envisage being posted here are often likely to be circumstantial. There will be plenty of shades of grey even when their work is in full colour.
It will also sometimes be contradictory.
My hope is that any information collected here, even if its use is not always immediately apparent, may become useful in the future as it accumulates.
Relevant discussion or contributions from others will be most welcome
but I'd prefer posts to be reasonably well-focused, i.e. if you want to talk about, say, three different photographers then in most cases it will be best to make three separate posts one about each, except where those overlaps are important or relevant to your points.
At present there are no plans to "organise" this thread e.g. by creating an index but that may change if and as it evolves--and that is the main reason for wanting posts to mostly stick to single photographers.
My thanks to Name-Hunter and Decadence for their encouragement and suggestions regarding getting this thread started.
edit: thread processed with halvar's tool.