A Vintage Job Interview and a Vintage Couch

“Do you like Jack Daniels?”

That’s how it all started at Playboy for photographer Jeff Cohen. He began drinking whiskey with the magazine’s photo editor, who never looked at Cohen’s portfolio during the job interview but did find time to ask, in between shots, when Cohen wanted to start.

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These days, Cohen, 69, is a Chicago small business owner, having retired from the Playboy ranks in 2011 and relaunched himself the following year as a portrait photographer.

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