Suze Randall (born 18 May 1946) is an English model, photographer, and pornographer. Randall was the first female staff photographer for both ''
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'' and '' Hustler''. She is one of the early female
porn
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film directors
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; she made ''Kiss and Tell'' in 1980. She is president of adult content website Suze Network.
Life and work
Working first as a nurse, then as a fashion model in the early 1970s, Randall gained attention for erotic photographs she took of her fellow model friends. In 1972, she played an
au pair
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in
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's film '' Love in the Afternoon''. She gave up modelling and devoted her time to erotic photography becoming the first female to shoot ''
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'' for '' The Sun'' newspaper. After working for years in top adult magazines like '' Penthouse'' and ''Playboy,'' she now continues her career as a freelance photographer. In recent years, her work has included
bondage
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imagery.
Her breakthrough came when she spotted the pinup model
Lillian Müller
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and photographed her for ''Playboy''. Müller was chosen as
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in August 1975 and subsequently Playmate of the Year in 1976. In a pictorial in ''Playboy's'' May 1976 issue, Randall was both photographer and model. She went on to shoot a much more explicit self-portrait in a June 1977 ''Hustler'' pictorial.
Randall was staff photographer from 1975 until 1977 for ''Playboy'' under the supervision of the magazine's West Coast editor
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, then from 1977 until 1979 staff photographer for ''Hustler''. Later she provided ''
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, Lanny Barby,
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, Nikita,
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, Lexus Locklear, Lilly Ann,
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Julie Strain
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Racquel Darrian
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calendar, has done album covers for recording artists such as
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(side project of
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, as well as a music video for
Capitol Records
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.
Randall is married to writer Humphry Knipe, who helped write her biographical book ''Suze'' (1977), wrote and directed several of her films as Victor Nye, and manages Suze Randall Productions websites. Their daughter, Holly Randall, (born 5 September 1978), is an American erotic photographer who works with her mother and has her own erotic website.Taormino, Tristan "Meet the Randalls," ''
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