02 Works, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 16

Conrad Jon Godly
Amber Smith, Hollywood, 1995
Vintage C-print

cm 41,6 x 34,5 (cm 39,5 x 32 picture)

Private collection

Amber Smith was born in Tampa, Florida. Smith started modeling by age 16. As a teenager she was represented by Irene Marie Models in Miami Beach and traveled to Paris, France, where she worked as a model throughout Europe for four years. Her breakthrough came when her naturally blonde hair was dyed red, giving her a strong resemblance to 1940s and '50s movie star Rita Hayworth.

Smith appeared in back-to-back issues of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, and became Esquire magazine's first Vargas Girl of the 1990s. She also became the first model of the Wonderbra campaign. She later posed for photographer Helmut Newton for a Wolford advertising campaign, and was the model for the 2002 lingerie campaign for Venus Victoria, the European sister company to Victoria's Secret.

Smith was cast in her first film role in Paul Mazursky's Faithful. She also appeared in The Funeral,  and The Mirror Has Two Faces. She played Susan Lefferts, a Rita Hayworth lookalike, in Curtis Hanson's L.A. Confidential. Smith's resemblance to Hayworth came into play again with a role in HBO's cable telefilm The Rat Pack. More on Amber Smith

Conrad Jon Godly

Amber Smith, Hollywood, 1995

Vintage gelatin silver print

cm 40,5 x 31 (cm 30 x 25 picture)

Private collection

Conrad Jon Godly is a Swiss painter based in Graubuenden, Switzerland. Godly originally studied as a painter at the Basel School of Art in the 80s, and then was a professional photographer for almost 2 decades – until he decided to return to painting. first working from a studio in Vienna, he eventually returned to his home in the Swiss Alps, where he studies the mountains on long walks with his camera. More on Conrad Jon Godly

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