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Originally Posted by effCup
Anyway, so far these are the earliest credits I've been able to find for R.B. Kane:
Club (US), 1979-12
Knave 1980-03
Men Only 1981-04
Swank 1983-06
Velvet 1983-12
Club International (UK) 1984-05
Adam (US) 1986-12.
There are also later (1990s) credits in magazines for RBK International, RBK Productions, or just RBK (2002), as well as more instances of R.B. Kane. I don't know for sure but perhaps those are all by the same person?
Oddly, Adam (US) credits sets from 1966-10 to 1975-11 to a photographer named RBK. I find it difficult to imagine they can have all been the same person as then she would likely have to have been born in 1948 if not earlier, i.e. aged in her mid-50s by the early-2000s. On the other hand it seems a quite distinctive name or set of initials.  |
Years ago I had a '60's issue of Figure Photography Quarterly (same publisher as Modern Man) with a feature about a husband/wife team named Rudy (or Rudi) & Blanca (or Bianca), surname
*** They had come to Cal from Eastern Europe & were the RBK in Modern Man, Adam & other mags, 60's into mid 70's.
Later 70's that name seemed to disappear. Then '80's & 90's "R.B. Kane", with completely different style (90's vs. 70') & maybe even xxx iirc.
I oc wondered same thing you are asking & saw the "she" somewhere. Seemed possible a - their daughter, b- Blanca as (like Bunny Yaeger) an active senior, or c - someone named Kane, unrelated, but playing off the RB name. Complete coincidence seemed least likely.
Ca. 2000+/-, when I still thought the web might have this kind of info, I tried to search it. Unsuccessful then & I'm sure it hasn't got any better.
They were obviously important in history of "figure" & men's mags. Hard to believe in the "Information Age", it's lost.
Edit ***: Correct spelling is Kratochvil (Rudy & Blanca) per that mag, FPQ #44, Fall '65. Having correct spelling does not change the fact that 'Net Knows Nothing.