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"  This October will mark Esquire&amp;#039;s seventy-fifth anniversary. As part of the celebration, which will undoubtedly include guacamole, we&amp;#039;ll be reinterpreting four iconic covers from our past. We started with this one, based on a photograph of actress Angie Dickinson taken by Frank Bez (shown at left) that ran in 1966, because it was memorable enough to have already inspired two previous covers -- August 1993 and November 2003. In the months ahead, we&amp;#039;ll be re-creating three more classic images, each serving as not only an homage but an update. We hope you enjoy them. At least have some guacamole. About the Photographers Frank Bez didn&amp;#039;t create this now-iconic image specifically for Esquire. &amp;quot;It was a spec shooting that [Angie and I] did together,&amp;quot; Bez says. &amp;quot;My agent sent it on to Esquire, they took a liking to it, and they&amp;#039;ve been using the damn thing ever since.&amp;quot; As he did with many of his subjects, Bez approached Dickinson, whom he&amp;#039;d befriended during his job as a photographer for Hollywood studios, with a challenge. He asked her to figure out how they could photograph a &amp;quot;non-nude nude.&amp;quot; She came back to him with this. She also came back to him in a powder-blue sweater and stood in front of a black background, but you wouldn&amp;#039;t know it from the images run since the original. By the time Esquire approached Bez for another shot of Dickinson to use on the cover in 1993, the film had faded into a burgundy and white, which eventually became the now-utilized maroon and cream. Bez credits this photo with reconnecting him with Esquire, where he&amp;#039;d worked, for only one week, in the early 1950s, and for whom he later shot Duke Ellington and Andy Warhol. He is now retired and lives in Avila Beach, California.  When it came time to re-create Bez&amp;#039;s shot for the 2003 cover with Britney Spears, Esquire approached a longtime contributor, photographer James White. &amp;quot;Spears&amp;#039;s playfulness made capturing Dickinson&amp;#039;s look a breeze,&amp;quot; White says. But this year, shooting four women instead of one made it a little more difficult to retain the style of the original. White needed not only to keep the backdrop and sweaters the same, but to find subjects as comfortable in front of the camera as their predecessors. Turns out the Victoria&amp;#039;s Secret women -- Adriana Lima, Karolina Kurkova, Izabel Goulart, and Selita Ebanks -- were a perfect fit. When asked if they made his job easy, White responded, &amp;quot;Oh, my God, yes. They just let loose.&amp;quot;  Related Stories:\u2022 Click here to see the Victoria&amp;#039;s Secret pictorial \u2022 Click here to read about what happened on the set "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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