![]() ![]() ![]() Jeff Dunas: Actually I discovered Cameron, and the way that happened was I saw her at a party once. Were you involved as a fashion photographer, portraits, or what? Robert Farber: Thinking of that, I just saw this new edition of American Photo. And that's been my career since the late 80's. Instead, I relaunched my career as a photographer, portraits and some advertising-primarily portraits. Jeff Dunas: Well I've always done nudes for myself, and I continue to do a fair amount of them, but I realize at that point in time I was going to stop trying to make a living photographing women and doing nudes. Robert Farber: But after that, did you stay with the nudes-or what happened, where did your career go from there? There hasn't been anything like it since. And I think that for those three years it was a really special magazine published, not just because I did it, but because when I look back at those issues now, it really had a lot of integrity. But the magazine's intention was to publish the world's fine art photography of women. I had a lot of trouble where people associated the magazine with a men's magazine and didn't want to advertise, and without advertiser support, you can't do magazines. Robert Farber: Because of the nudes, I guess. Jeff Dunas: Well the magazine I did with my own resources and I was never very successful in getting advertising from the photographic corporate world. Robert Farber: And what about Collector's Photography-it was a wonderful magazine, and people really crave it I know, and I always hear whenever I mention Jeff Dunas, they say whatever happened to that magazine that was wonderful? I started out doing a book called Contemporary American Erotic Photography, and after that I realized I had a lot of trouble with censorship from bookstores and so forth, but those very bookstores carry Playboy and Penthouse, and I thought I'll do it in a magazine form and I'll do it better. Jeff Dunas: When I launched that magazine in 1985-and it lasted until the end of 1988-and I did that magazine because I felt a lot of.I was uncontent with the quality of photographs being published in magazines for men, and I didn't want to just work for those types of magazines, but there was no other market fine nudes, and I decided to do one myself. Robert Farber: Now when did your magazine.when did you get into the publishing business with your magazine Collector's Photography that I know I was crazy about, and so did many people who appreciated fine art nudes. And the last book like that that I did in 1983 called Voyeur. I had a second book that I did in 1982 called Mademoiselle, Mademoiselle. It was published in six languages around the world, and we sold almost 125,000 copies in hardcover, which today sounds unbelievable, but that was the case then in 1981. Jeff Dunas: Captured Women was my first book, and it was published in 1981. ![]() ![]() Robert Farber: And Jeff, after that, when did you first book come out? Eventually I got started working for Penthouse and I worked with them until 74, and then I quit and went to work at Playboy where I was the staff photographer of Oui magazine for two more years. Jeff Dunas: I got started in the very beginning of my career photographing girls that I knew in school, actually, and submitting the photographs to Penthouse Magazine in 1972. Robert Farber: Jeff has had quite an interesting career, been involved in publishing, has many books out, and Jeff, how did you get started in the very beginning of your career? Jeff Dunas: I'm not sure that's true but. Jeff and I go way back, but I think Jeff goes back a little further than I. Robert Farber: I'm sitting here in an outdoor cafe in a beautiful surroundings in Tapenga, California interviewing a good friend of mine and great photographer Jeff Dunas. ![]()
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