Monday, January 2, 2012

Bimbo's 365 Club

Bimbo's 365 Club in San Francisco is an old-school of a club as I've ever been in.  I recently shot their famous fishbowl for the New York Times.  For special events, and sometimes private parties, a nude woman performs in the fishbowl - a crazy contraption where she performs down in the basement and her image is reflected up into a tiny fishbowl behind the bar, where she looks like she is swimming.  The role of the woman in the fishbowl is called Dolphina, and many women have played this role for the past 70-plus years.  Here's the edit from the New York Times for the job, here's the edit from the Bay Citizen, and here's some of my favorites: