photos: (top) Chad Doering,
 (bottom) Marilyn Manson

By Blair R. Fischer

He's the shock rocker who consistently tops the charts; she's the milky-smooth burlesque artist who's every trenchcoat-wearing goth's wet dream. We were so intrigued by this match made in hell that we bestowed the honor of being Playboy.com's very first Celebrity Guest Photographer to Marilyn Manson and his girlfriend, Playboy model Dita von Teese. In January 2002, the erstwhile Brian Warner shot an arty batch of photos of Dita, who stars in the video for his song mOBSCENE. So impressed with the results of the session was Hef that he commandeered some of the photos from the Playboy.com shoot for the December 2002 issue of Playboy magazine, which features the exotic Dita on the cover and four Manson/Dita snapshots inside. Now, in a Playboy.com exclusive, you can see the entire, risqué photo shoot as it was intended to be seen by the freakish photog himself. Beautiful people, indeed.

Cyber Club members enter here.

"I wanted to shoot Dita in a way that I don't think a lot of people do," Manson told Playboy.com, "and that's with dramatic lighting, shadows. Especially for magazines like Playboy, people like to see a lot of detail, for whatever lurid purposes, and I want to do stuff with dramatic shadows because I find her to be a dramatic person in her everyday life."

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