Lena Soderberg

Infobox Playboy Playmate
name = Lena Soderberg

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imagesize = 150px
caption = As pictured in the Lenna image.
issue = November 1972
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birthplace = Sweden
birthdate = birth date and age|1951|3|31
bust = 34"
waist = 26"
hips = 36"
height = height|ft=5|in=6
weight = convert|110|lb|kg st|abbr=on|lk=on
preceded = Sharon Johansen
succeeded = Mercy Rooney
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Lena Soderberg (born March 31, 1951 in Sweden; the actual Swedish spelling of this name is "Lena Söderberg", but she is better known without the diacritics) appeared as a Playmate in the November 1972 issue of "Playboy" magazine [cite journal |year=1972 |month=November |title=Playmate of the Month |journal=Playboy Magazine ] , under the name Lenna Sjööblom. Her centerfold was photographed by Dwight Hooker.

Her photo (known as Lenna) is often used in the field of digital image processingJamie Hutchison, "Culture, Communication, and an Information Age Madonna," "IEEE Personal Communication Society Newsletter" Vol. 45, No. 3, May/June 2001, [http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~chuck/lennapg/pcs_mirror/may_june01.pdf PDF] ] . She was a guest at the 50th annual "Conference of the Society for Imaging Science and Technology" [ [http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~chuck/lennapg/lenna.shtml Imaging Experts Meet Lenna in Person] ] in 1997 where she was busy signing autographs, posing for pictures, and giving a presentation about herself.

Lena currently lives near Stockholm and works for the state liquor monopoly, Systembolaget. She is married and has 3 children.

References

ee also

*Lenna
* List of people in Playboy 1970-1979

External links

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* [http://www.ee.cityu.edu.hk/~lmpo/lenna/Lenna97.html A Complete Story of Lenna (with one new picture of her)]
* [http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~chuck/lennapg/ The Lenna Story (contains a link to an un-cropped scan of the original Playboy photograph)]