Comments on: Penis Envy, My Ass: the photo

Question: Penis Envy, My Ass: the photo

cheapskatebay — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 13:26:48 -0800

Please help me figure out how to contact a particular photographer to obtain duplicate images of a photo. NSFW

We have a photo in our house that hangs over one of our toilets. It looks like this (image is NSFW):

NSFW link

The title is self-explanatory. It seems equally clear that the photographer's name is Marilyn Lee. (Perhaps she is the subject as well?)

My wife had this image on laminated newsprint when we were in college in North Carolina the early to mid-90s. It's possible, even probable, that the original print came from a newsweekly in Memphis, where she grew up. I seem to recall the original image being a "centerfold" of some sort - I think it was a numbered image that was presumably one of a series of such numbered images that appeared in the center of this local newspaper. Somewhere along the line we acquired a nice photo of the image, which we've framed, and we discarded her original laminated newsprint copy.

A large number of our female friends and relatives think this is a cool photo, and I'd like to be able to contact the photographer to obtain duplicates to give as gifts. (If anyone else can find the image without going through the photographer, that's fine, too!) I'd think this would be straightforward but my Google-fu has failed me.

Thanks!

By: dinger

dinger — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 15:04:05 -0800

Perhaps Marilyn Lee is not the photographer or the subject. Are you aware of this site? Maybe she used it as a cover illustration for one of her "erotic romances". Seems to dovetail (Har!) quite nicely.

By: hades

hades — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 21:29:08 -0800

Per the copyright registration record, Marilyn Lee is the photographer:

Type of Work: Visual Material
Registration Number / Date: VA0000503665 / 1991-12-23
Title: Penis envy, my ass.
Appears in: No. 14, summer 1991, p. 18-19
Description: Photo.
Notes: Add. ti.: No centerfold.
Copyright Claimant: Marilyn E. Lee, 1961-
Date of Creation: 1990
Date of Publication: 1991-08-29
Copyright Note: C.O. correspondence.
Other Title: No centerfold
No. 14, summer 1991
Names: Lee, Marilyn E., 1961-

By: hades

hades — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 21:32:05 -0800

And I'm betting it comes from number:inc volume 14, based on that. Their online archive doesn't go as far back as 1991, so I'd contact them for information on back issues.

By: interplanetjanet

interplanetjanet — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 21:42:17 -0800

Just a guess, but the photographer might be this Marilyn Lee who's an art professor in North Dakota but got a photography degree in Memphis.

Her email is in the faculty directory

By: interplanetjanet

interplanetjanet — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 21:45:15 -0800

Now I'm sure it's her. This page says she was the treasurer for Numbers, Inc., where Hades found the photo was printed..

By: hades

hades — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 22:06:27 -0800

Oh, good find!

By: dinger

dinger — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 02:12:50 -0800

Nice job, you two.

By: cheapskatebay

cheapskatebay — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 06:04:58 -0800

Wow! Thanks to all for your quick and extremely helpful replies!

By: interplanetjanet

interplanetjanet — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 14:29:44 -0800

You're welcome!