We
were in Haiti, back in the mid-seventies, at Habitation
LaClerc, a wonderful resort walled-off from the poverty
of Port au Prince. I was photographing Dominique for a
Penthouse magazine centerfold. I got this idea when a
masseur presented himself at the semi-private swimming
pool available to occupants of two adjacent villas. But,
the masseur did not understand what I wanted him to do,
as he spoke a "Creole" style French, and I did not speak
French.
However, one of the neighbors
vacationing in the next-door villa was an attractive
redheaded woman who did, indeed, speak French, and she
happily directed the masseur to do as I asked.
Though this photo was kept as a
reference by Vogue, and used in East Germany (with
permission), and an edition of MAX (without my consent),
possibly the most memorable aspect of this photo was the
redheaded woman who "directed" the shot. Known to her
friends as "Bubbles," she was the renown opera singer,
Beverly Sills!