A conversation with American photographer Chehalis Hegner Last month Playboy magazine announced that beginning March 2016, they would no longer publish nude photographs of women. But how has it affected us as a society for 50 years? Today, with the billion-dollar online pornography industry a click away and selfies landing many politicians and celebrities into a viral tar-and-feathering, the idea of a woman who poses nude for Playboy seems almost tame. But for Chehalis Hegner, an American photographer who fell upon a Playboy photo shoot on her family-farm in Halo Hills, Illinois when she was a child, the shock of that encounter remains defining and has informed much of her work. "Is ours a...
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