Dwight Hooker

Dwight Hooker
Born(1928-06-22)June 22, 1928
Albany, New York, U.S.
DiedJanuary 3, 2015(2015-01-03) (aged 86)
Michigan, U.S.
Occupation(s)Photographer, architect
Children6

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]

  1. ^ Coleman, A. D.; Grantz, Sheer (1980). The Photography A-V program directory. Photography Media Institute. ISBN 978-0-936524-00-9.
  2. ^ Callahan, Sean (1975). Photographing sensuality, J. Frederick Smith. Crowell. p. 45. ISBN 978-0-690-00781-7.
  3. ^ Tarrant, Jon (2007). Understanding Digital Cameras: Getting the Best Image from Capture to Output. Focal Press. p. 41. ISBN 978-0-240-52024-7.
  4. ^ Seitz, Juergen (2005). Digital watermarking for digital media. Idea Group Inc (IGI). p. 9. ISBN 978-1-59140-518-4.