Dwight Hooker
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Dwight Hooker (June 22, 1928 – January 3, 2015) was an American photographer and architect. He was best known as a photographer for Playboy magazine and has been described as one of the masters of "the sensual and the erotic", along with photographers Helmut Newton and J. Frederick Smith.[1][2] One of his photographs became the basis of Lenna, the standard test image for image processing algorithms (such as compression and denoising) and related scientific publications.[3][4]
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Dwight Hooker | |
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Born | (1928-06-22)June 22, 1928 Albany, New York, U.S. |
Died | January 3, 2015(2015-01-03) (aged 86) Michigan, U.S. |
Occupation(s) | Photographer, architect |
Children | 6 |
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