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| photo by Stan Malinowski |
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In 1965, Alexander Liberman, the editorial director of Condé Nast publications, realized that American culture had changed and that Vogue was not keeping pace. He wanted to bring more sensuality and eroticism into the pages of the fashion magazine, so he stunned the fashion world by calling in Stan Malinowski, a young photographer who had grown up in Chicago and had been making a name for himself shooting for Playboy and other magazines. Malinowski went on to shoot for Vogue for five years, producing sexy, colorful, and surprising imagery that gave the magazine the very qualities Liberman had been looking for.
“Stan always reminded me of Charles de Gaulle, and he was always full of ideas,” recalls Naudet. “But he had one dream, and that was to own and direct his own magazine.” In 1987 Malinowski launched Metro, an art and lifestyle publication. “He lost everything on that project,” says Naudet. “But he is still very happy, and he swears that one day he will launch another.” Malinowski, whose Website, modelpix.com, exhibits much of his work, recalls his career fondly. “I photographed just about every top model of the late ’70s through the mid-’80s,” he says. “There are just three that I missed: Sharon Stone, Kim Basinger, and Brooke Shields. Even today I would love to photograph those women...perhaps now even more than when they were modeling.”
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