Lenna Sjooblom
November, 2018
November 1972 PlaymateWhen Lenna Sjööblom posed for PLAYBOY—wearing little more than a feathered floppy hat, a pink boa and an arresting gaze—the Swedish model had no idea she would become part of computer history. Shot by Dwight Hooker, Lenna’s Centerfold (above) played a key role in the development of electronic image processing after engineers at the University of Southern California chose it as a test photo in 1973. Grabbing a colleague’s magazine, the researchers scanned the modest upper th...
