Koegel, Jane,

Jane Koegel was an Artist's model of San Francisco, Calif.

Jane Kogel has posed for years for photographer Dennis Letbetter, with whom she lives in San Francisco. She is the subject of a recently published limited edition book entitled Jane designed by renowned typographer Jack Stauffacher of Greenwood Press. The photographs depict Kogel, nude, in various spaces throughout the large Victorian house into which they were about to move. In the interview Kogel discusses the difference between posing for painters and photographers, social aspects of the sessions, the rapport between artist and model, and the possibility of the model's personality "getting in the way." She explains posing for Letbetter as a kind of performance, in which she "plays to the black lens." For Kogel, posing can provide a life-enriching experience outside day-to-day life.