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Artist: Arny Freytag
Title: Girls of Kiss
Year created: Published: January 1999
Medium: Archival Exhibition Fiber Photo Paper
Edition: Open Edition
Height (inches): 36
Width (inches): 30
This piece is unframed.
Description of piece:
This is an image of the rock group, “Kiss,” featuring Gene Simmons, an Israeli-American musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, entrepreneur, actor, and television personality. It is part of the original Playboy Legacy Collection of 48 images since its launch in 1953. The Playboy Legacy Collection was printed as a boxed set and launched in 2007 as a diverse selection of 48 Playboy centerfold images beginning in 1953, each chosen by Hugh Hefner and International Images CEO Norman Solomon for its iconic place in history and eternal beaty and was originally produced by International Images in 2007.
Artist bio:
Arny Freytag is an American photographer who specializes in glamour photography. He began working for Playboy magazine in 1976. At one time he was one of two photographers who Hugh Hefner chose to produce the Playboy centerfold photographs. He grew up in Chicago and graduated from the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts in 1970, and Brooks Institute of Photography, California. After an initial period as an apprentice at Playboy Magazine, he joined famous photographers, Mario Casilli, Richard Fegley and Ken Marcus as the principal photographers at Playboy's California studio. Freytag specialized in the use of elaborate lighting setups, often using dozens of flash heads and became proficient with the 4”x5” view camera, replacing Playboy’s very large 8"x10” view camera that used massive strobe (electronic flash) light needed to expose that large a sheet of film. After Playboy abandoned film and moved to digital cameras, Freytag continued to create images using up to fifty flash heads, each light meticulously placed and targeted to illuminate a small area of the photo. He likens his technique to that of a painter, using each light as his brush strokes, selectively illuminating each area as he incrementally builds the final image. Freytag no longer works for Playboy. His last centerfold shoot was of Playmate Amanda Streich, Miss December 2012.
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