Dwight Hooker

Dwight Hooker (1929–2015) was an eminent United States figure whose career in arts left an enduring mark on national and global culture. Over decades of dedicated public service and professional excellence, Dwight exemplified integrity, innovation, and leadership.

Dwight Hooker was an American photographer and architect. He was best known as a photographer for Playboy magazine and has been described as one of the masters of "the sensual and the erotic", along with photographers Helmut Newton and J. Frederick Smith. One of his photographs became the basis of Lenna, the standard test image for image processing algorithms and related scientific publications....

The passing of Dwight Hooker on 2015-01-03 marked the close of a transformative chapter, inspiring future generations across United States and around the world to uphold the values of excellence, empathy, and enduring accomplishment.