Life can be really tough . . .
I've spent the majority of my adult life photographing the most glamourous, beautiful and erotic women in the world for Playboy and Penthouse magazines.
My photographs regularly appear in magazines, books, galleries and museums around the world.
I'm a third-generation Californian. I've studied classical music, photography and fine-art and by the age of 15 I had set my career course in photography. I've attended Art Center College of Design and Brooks Institute of Photography. I was very fortunate to have also spent 13 years as Ansel Adams youngest student in Yosemite. I first became interested in doing nude erotic photography as a way to explore the visual relationships between people and their sexuality.
At 23, I became the first American photographer for Penthouse Magazine and three years later became the main centerfold photographer for Playboy Magazine, where I've produced hundreds of glamour editorial, calendar, covers and Playmate layouts.
I love what I do and to this day still enjoy my work.
As well as glamour and erotica, I produced ten years of editorials and covers for Muscle & Fitness Magazine. I've shot hundreds of advertisements, posters, calendars, album covers for numerous commercial clients.I enjoy the diversity of lifestyles available here in southern Calif. and continue to gain inspiration from the many dirversity of models that I find here. My newest works involve bondage, fetish and erotic nude models. I love working with ballet dancers, contortionists, body builders, performance artists, athletes and others that are involved in body modification, self-expression and/or alternative lifestyles. And of course, I still shoot centerfolds and features for Penthouse magazine.
The strength of my work has less to do with any particular portrayal of sexuality than it has to do with the effect of that sexuality on my models. If you take a wonderfully beautiful model, put her into fetish gear, and if she doesn't relate to it sexually, all you have a catalog shot, nothing more. I seek models that relate to their sexuality and exude an energy that I can capture through my lens.
It's important that my models trust me enough to reveal who they really are and how they wish to be portrayed.
Feel free to contact me regarding modeling, or anything else that's on your mind.
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Recently I went through some boxes that were stored in my garage and found a batch of negatives from the Montery Pop Festival in 1967. I've discovered photos of Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, The Who and many more that I'm showing on my print gallery web site.
www.KenMarcusGallery.com
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If you want to see my MOST EROTIC IMAGES . . . . check out my site:
www.KenMarcus.com
