- Lena Soderberg
Infobox Playboy Playmate
name = Lena Soderberg
imagesize = 150px
caption = As pictured in theLenna image.
issue = November 1972
birthname =
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
pmoy-year=
pmoy-preceded=
pmoy-succeeded=Lena Soderberg (born March 31, 1951 in
Sweden ; the actual Swedish spelling of this name is "Lena Söderberg", but she is better known without thediacritic s) appeared as aPlaymate 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. Hercenterfold was photographed byDwight Hooker .Her photo (known as
Lenna ) is often used in the field ofdigital image processing Jamie 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 theSociety 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
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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)]
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