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Plus the fact that the editors of magazines were pornographers not photographers and only wanted the product that fulfilled the tech requirements of color printing at the time.
Also the mags were regulated by the government, and wholesalers.
Also professional photographers were working in the mainstream media with well paid jobs. Fashion photography with much better skills, budgets and editors with an eye for culture.
The readers had no choice. Porn was as dull then as Paul Markham's pictures are today.
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