Haresh Shah
Without Makeup And With Their Clothes On
Even though I would go on to produce and organize a whole bunch of Playmates and other pictorials for Playboy’s International Editions, of the women I’ve had privilege to work with, the two that have remained in my memory and my thoughts are the first ones from Germany, Barbara Corser and Dagmar Puttkammer. I got to know both of them up front and close and we were able to strike up a certain personal rapport that went beyond the usual superfluous bonding that results at being thrown together while working on a project.
Dagmar appeared on Playboy Germany’s March 1975 cover with her upside down naked image as seen through the ground glass at back of the camera. Shot by Tassilo Trost, another one of Germany’s illustrious photographers. The cover blurb said: Klar steh ich kopf, ich bin der erste Playmate. (Of course I am standing on my head, I am the first Playmate.) Like the editors of the German edition, I too was in awe of what it took to produce a Playboy’s Playmate. They wrote in Unter Uns – the German version of Playbill – that to fill those ten pages, it took three photographers, 80 color and 20 black and white films, 36 exposures each, and 100 large format single plates – in all 3700 photos. This is not counting about a dozen rolls I used for the test shoot. A minor production by the standards of the mother edition in the U.S.
Lieber Haresh, endlich Grossvater. Aussehen tust Du ja schon lange so!!! Ganz herzlichen Glückwunsch, natürlich auch Richtung Grossmama nach St. Paul, zu Carolyn.
Wir würden natürlich gern zur Taufe kommen. Nur zur Zeit spielt das Wetter nicht so recht mit. Wir kämen eventuell zu spät.
Lese nach wie vor Deine Playboy-Erinnerungen mit viel Intresse und
Vergnügen.
Juliane und ich werden das Ereignis natürlich feiern. Die Rechnung, nun aber aus einem guten Restaurant, folgt schnellstmöglich.
Liebe Grüsse über den Teich
Heinz und Lia – mitten aus Essen
Nein, Heinz Nellissen. Ich bin platt! Geht es Dir gut? Liebe Grüße
Eva Fischer geb. Peters
BY NOW EVERY FRIDAY EAGERLY WAITING FOR ONE MORE DOWN THE MEMORY LANE EPISOD….WONDERFUL..
REGARDS…RIKHAV
I recall when I believe you and two German Playmates came to our home for brunch at about this same time period. It was during a photo shoot in Chicago. I was in high school and I remember my mother asking if I would make myself available to help entertain the 2 Playmates that were coming to our home. As a teenage high school boy I bet you could guess what my answer was! I am not sure if these are the same 2 that you write about but it certainly brought back a nice memory of meeting two wonderful young ladies……that happened to be appearing in one of the first German editions of Playboy.
keep ’em coming! love hearing about your past