Penthouse Photo World August/September 1976 Magazine
TABLE OF CONTENTS
6 OUT TAKES
8 QUICK TAKES
Photography's many faces.
19 PHOTO FORUM
Reader s viewpoints
23 ROUNDUP
120 Rot-Film SLRs
36 PHOTO INDUSTRY
40 JACQUES-HENRI LARTIGUE
Tres Beau
48 INTERVIEW: JACQUES-HENRI LARTIGUE
On the spiritual and sensual side.
50 John ThornTON
Fantasies Brought to Life
60 HEADS YOU LOSE
68 CATHERINE URSILLO
Celebration of Life
72 PETER BEARD
84 JEANLOUP SIEFF
90 CELEBRITY PHOTOGRAPHER
John Derek
96 ROBERT ADELMAN
Silky New York Superpimp.
104 THOMAS HOPKER
Concerned Photographer
110 ROGER SCHALL
S & M from the Dirty Thirties
120 PHOTO TECH
Minolta XE-7 and exotic Rokkors, Bronica ETR. Mamiya M645, Minox 35 EL,
Rollei 35S. Kodak instant cameras. Berkeys Wizard. and the latest in
new equipment
138 PHOTO DISCOVERS
Hidden talent
142 PHOTO CLASSICS
Great pictures of the past,
144 PHOTO MART
146 SPEAKING OF PICTURES
EDITORIAL NOTE
Legal battles between Kodak and Polaroid over the instant camera and
film market will have powerful consequences for you the photographer
and consumer. Fees and expenses amounting to millions can be expected
before the battle ends, but neither Kodak nor Polaroid will lose
financially. Regardless of the outcome in court, you alone will pay the
bills.
In 1972, Kodak went to court in England and, again, in Canada this past
April to have Polaroid's patents invalidated. Then it was Polaroid's
turn. A week after Kodak announced their entry into the
instant-products market, Polaroid filed suit alleging infringement of
their patents. The present legal maneuvers involve only instant prints,
but the real battle will begin when instant transparencies and instant
movie film—now being developed by both companies—hit the market. The
court battles will drag on for years—none of the current suits have
been settled; some of them never will be. The staggering costs of all
this futile litigation will be borne by the consumer. Such sheer waste
indicates a lack of socio-corporate conscience reminiscent of the 1870s
rather than the 1970s.
PENTHOUSE PHOTO WORLD feels that Kodak and Polaroid, as industry
leaders, must reevaluate their goals as well as their competitive
status. The immense sums being poured into largely nonproductive legal
hassles (and eventually charged back to the captive consumer) could be
better spent speeding the development and marketing of innovative
photographic products for all—including the stockholders.
—Joe Kelleher
