Vintage photographers and their AKAs - A notebook

[CosmoK]

Originally Posted by effCup

Further to the semi-circular window theme noted above here, thanks to FotoKollektor I've found some pics. of Trine Michelsen (aka Annik) in the same setting, only the blinds are yellow, see here. One of those pictorials is credited to Ulf Stjernbo (Peter Flodqvist).

I just posted here a find that perhaps can be of some help.

[beutelwolf]

Originally Posted by effCup

Posts 5-7 in that thread are again all of one (different) model, Nini Larssen, and also all from one setting with photog. credits of Basil Crawford-Smith & Sascha Alexander, so I think those are also AKAs for the same photographer.

Sascha Alexander is a pseudonym for Hans Moser, who used to be liased with Teresa Orlowski, and later with Sarah Young. Here is a movie cap with him:

[effCup]

Originally Posted by beutelwolf

Sascha Alexander is a pseudonym for Hans Moser

OK, so the one and the same person Hans Moser, Jr. used the name Sascha Alexander a bit like a different hat/job title, for his photographic & video work?

Love Games 02-06, 1988-08, thanks to goldentaurus2001. Lists both Hans Moser, Jr. and Sascha Alexander as staff photographers, Hans again as marketing director and Sascha again as production manager.

Originally Posted by goldentaurus2001

Foxy Lady's Lovers 06-20, 1989-04, thanks to bandito66. Lists both Hans Moser, Jr. and Sascha Alexander as staff photographers, and Hans again as editor and Sascha again as art director.

Originally Posted by bandito66

[beutelwolf]

Originally Posted by effCup

OK, so the one and the same person Hans Moser, Jr. used the name Sascha Alexander a bit like a different hat/job title, for his photographic & video work?

Yes. Makes it more appear like a many-people operation, see also here.

[haVEFun here]

VEF VIP member themaster:

http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/member.php?u=32410

first found post on VEF:

http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/sho...5754#post85754

first found post in a now closed thread:

http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/sho...897#post180897

regards, hfh.

[CosmoK]

A recent search has led me to this pictorial of Joëlle Coeur, credited to "Hainicki":

Originally Posted by restoration201

That is raising new questions about photographers' aliases, because of:

— Hainicki is obviously a typo of Hanicki,

— "Jean Hanicki" is being considered as an alias of Serge Jacques for a short while (at least by me),

— these photos of Joëlle Coeur are commonly credited to André Bélorgey, a contemporary of Jacques.

This is why I am now wondering if Bélorgey could also be an alias of Serge Jacques, or if an unknown connection existed between Hanicki, Jacques and Bélorgey, or if the credit given above is simply another erroneous attribution from a publisher...

[beutelwolf]

Originally Posted by CosmoK

— Hainicki is obviously a typo of Hanicki,

— "Jean Hanicki" is being considered as an alias of Serge Jacques for a short while (at least by me),

— these photos of Joëlle Coeur are commonly credited to André Bélorgey, a contemporary of Jacques.

This is why I am now wondering if Bélorgey could also be an alias of Serge Jacques, or if an unknown connection existed between Hanicki, Jacques and Bélorgey, or if the credit given above is simply another erroneous attribution from a publisher...

You have to be careful with claims like that. Some photographers also acted as agents for others. So, when a mag credits a photographer, it may not be erroneous, just an acknowledgement of the source, and the source may be someone with a large archive...

So perhaps Hanicki is just that, a photographer's agent.

[CosmoK]

Originally Posted by beutelwolf

Some photographers also acted as agents for others.

I know you are right about that, beutelwolf, and I know that Serge Jacques also acted as agent for other photographers — at least for two of his friends, as far as I know.
This is why I try to be careful before reporting here a possible new alias. For example, for some time I thought that Lilo Korenjak was another alias of Jacques, because "Lilo" is credited in almost every issue of TUK and because each of these issues includes at least one photo of Jacques. Adding to that, when browsing VEF I found several pictorials credited to Korenjak that I recognized as the work of Jacques. Then by searching further I eventually came to consider —as you wrote elsewhere for that matter— that Lilo Korenjak should be the name of an agent (or an agency) more than of an alias.

The case of Hanicki seems quite different to me, since this name doesn't appear that much on credits, and only on pictorials that can (or could) be credited to S. Jacques. So the Flirt pictorial of "Babette Hanicki" is another clue stacking above others, and I just wanted to share my own opinion and call for other's, to see if we could confirm or discard it. That's no big deal and I am not trying to convince anyone that I am right about this guess, just explaining why I'm making it.

The real big deal is in fact about Bélorgey and Jacques, because it could lead to the same conclusion than for Roland Carré. But it is clearly not something I am claiming, just a mixed impression that I have since some time, caused by various little things far to be proofs, and revived by what can be seen as a possible link: this "Hainicki" pictorial. I am currently checking a couple of tracks, so I won't bother you again if nothing comes out.

[beutelwolf]

Originally Posted by CosmoK

This is why I try to be careful before reporting here a possible new alias. For example, for some time I thought that Lilo Korenjak was another alias of Jacques, because "Lilo" is credited in almost every issue of Chick and because each of these issues includes at least one photo of Jacques. Adding to that, when browsing VEF I found several pictorials credited to Korenjak that I recognized as the work of Jacques. Then by searching further I eventually came to consider —as you wrote elsewhere for that matter— that Lilo Korenjak should be the name of an agent (or an agency) more than of an alias.

Lilo Korenjak is actually the name of a female photographer, who in later years indeed must have acted as an agent too - for years there were Korenjak pictorials in almost every single issue of Schlüsselloch, and that's a weekly mag. As a rule of thumb I suspect: pictorials signed as "Korenjak" is most likely just the agency, pictorials signed "Lilo Korenjak" may be the woman herself.

To add to that: currently someone is selling some Korenjak pics on ebay.de, claiming they are from the estate of his aunt, Lilo Korenjak. It seems to me that her heyday as a photographer were the 1960s.

[CosmoK]

Maybe this rule corresponded to a custom among publishers, that could help them distinguish between direct works and others buys?
But what I found on eB*y when searching for Korenjak's photos, is that her name as agent was also "Lilo Korenjak". It was printed on green labels stuck on the back of prints. Here is one example showing this practice with Helmut Stege's work (another one exists for photog' George):