Press: All the Nudes Fit to Print

A Playboy photographer's Ivy League education

David Chan finds that publicity makes his job easier. Chan, 41, recruits and photographs women in various stages of undress for Playboy. He pays his models a one-time fee according to degree of deshabille: $100 clothed, $200 seminude ("topless, see-through blouse and so forth") and $400 nude ("something you wouldn't see on the beach or the street"). Organized according to categorical imperative, Chan's past work has included "Girls of the Big Ten" and "Girls of Washington." Fourteen years' experience has led him to expect his arrival in a new town to be treated as a news...

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