The Lincoln Star from Lincoln, Nebraska • Page 29

The Lincoln Star 30 Thursday, September 11, 1975 All For Sensuous Kumquats By RON POWERS (c) Chicago SuD-Times Chicago Consider Mark Kauffman. Either he has gone utterly mad, or he has attained a level of sensuality so advanced that none of us will comprehend it in our lifetimes. Mark Kauffman has a job that most male persons would give their fisheye lenses for. He is photography editor of Playboy. That is like being the secretary of state of erotica.

Kauffman gets paid absolutely disgusting globs of money for photographing or supervising the photography of women. Beautiful women. Beautiful naked women. Beautiful naked women with great big smiles, and eyes, and hairs. Great big hair, yes.

And orange skin and moist lips and staples in their navels; women that fold out in three parts and have names Uke Felicia and who are always taking bubble baths or getting ready for a date or just I know sitting around being naked. And do you know Mark Kauffman is going to do? In three weeks he is going to resign as photography editor of Playboy. He is giving it all up. And he is going off to do the thing he has always dreamed of doing: Photographing food. It boggles the mind.

The man who gave the nation of voyeurs all those Miss Januaries and Miss Junes and Miss Augusts is throwing it all over for Julie Child and the sensuous kumquat. Not Concerned lot of people think admitted Kauffman in his office the other day. He did not seem particularly concerned about it. However you think a Playboy photography editor should look and act, Mark Kaufmann is not. He is a powerful, yet comfortable-looking man of 53, virile the way Ed Asner is virile.

No aviator shades. No body shirt flung open to reveal lint. None of that desperate elan. The day I talked to him, Kauffman had on an understated Irish cardigan, belted at the waist, and tan Gucci slacks. It was in his office, though, that gave away secret notions of sensuality.

Sure, there was the obligatory tasteful decor, in Playboy orange and wood-brown. Sure, there was the stereo system, the gallery of Playboy nudes on the wall. But resting on the coffee table in front of his desk was the tipoff: a huge decanter filled with black and white gumdrops. On a windowsill was an expensive lootong coffee brewer; near it a jar of Choice. A woman, Kauffman knows, is only a woman.

But a proud of what I contributed to said Kauffman in matter-of-fact tones. been here four years, and I think the magazine has become more contemporary in that time. gotten away from the typical, posed-looking, cheesecake, pinup idea whatever you want to call it and into a natural, voyeuristic approach. Now, hopefully, the reader becomes the camera. 'The camera is not there.

Women started wondering what we could possibly do that is new in photographing women. I believe that where Playboy is still far ahead of the field is in getting women to pose for us. Bardot. An Oakland Raiders cheerleader. A champion surfer.

About the only thing new that you can do in erotic photography is to get women who seem inaccessible, and then show them with their clothes Kauffman sighed and gazed off into space. Clearly, the subject held little interest for him. He was, after all, been a photographer for more than 30 years most of that time circling the globe for Time, Life and Sports Illustrated magazines. Well, what about this interest in food photography? Night became day. Kauffman leapt to life.

he murmured. I love to cook. my real outlet. I love to cook, eat, drink and photograph. I asked myself: Why not combine all those things that I love? My wife, Anita, is Finnish, and a good cook also, although I usually take over.

I want to just go someplace where I can photograph raw food. Write a cookbook. Maybe a cookbook. did a lot of food photography while I was with Time-Life. Worked on five food Kauffman paused, a contented smile on his face.

He gazed dreamily for a moment, then continued: food is like photographing women you know. Food can be temperamental like women. Soups are especially difficult: flat surface. Stews are messy. Ah, but vegetables! expression became positively lascivious.

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