Suze Randall (born 18 May 1946) is an English model, photographer, and
pornographer. Randall was the first female staff photographer for both ''
Playboy
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'' and ''
Hustler
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''. She is one of the early female
porn
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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
Éric Rohmer
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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 ''
Page 3
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'' for ''
The Sun'' newspaper. After working for years in top adult magazines like ''
Penthouse
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'' and ''Playboy,'' she now continues her career as a freelance photographer. In recent years, her work has included
bondage imagery.
Her breakthrough came when she spotted the pinup model
Lillian Müller
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Career
A " Page Three Girl" five times, her first appearance was in January 1974. Müller achieved h ...
and photographed her for ''Playboy''. Müller was chosen as
Playmate of the Month 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
Marilyn Grabowski, then from 1977 until 1979 staff photographer for ''Hustler''. Later she provided ''
Penthouse Pet
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'' feature photo layouts for
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,
Alexus Winston, Lanny Barby,
Stormy Daniels
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, Nikita,
Sunny Leone
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, Lexus Locklear, Lilly Ann,
Silvia Saint
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Early ...
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Elizabeth Hilden
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Career
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,
Jisel
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,
Tera Patrick
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,
Julie Strain
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,
Racquel Darrian
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,
Swan, and
Pamela
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.
Randall has shot the British
Lamb's Navy Rum calendar, has done album covers for recording artists such as
Revenge (side project of
Peter Hook from
New Order) and
Robert Palmer, as well as a music video for
Capitol Records.
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
Holly Randall Knipe (born September 5, 1978) is an English- South African American erotic photographer, director, producer, and a podcast host. In 2013, she was named one of the most influential women in the adult industry by AVN magazine.
Bio ...
, (born 5 September 1978), is an American erotic photographer who works with her mother and has her own erotic website.
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References
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1946 births
Women pornographic film directors
Playboy photographers
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English female adult models
Living people
British erotic photographers
English pornographers
Artists from Worcester, England
English women photographers
Photographers from Worcestershire
Mass media people from Worcester, England