Florida Sun Models - Claudia -4 -

In the margins of the contact sheet notes, someone typed: “Claudia -4: usable for swim, resort, or sunglasses. No release for lingerie.” A reminder that this was commerce as much as art—catalog work for a 1987 summer line that never quite launched. Yet decades later, the image survives not for what it sold, but for what it didn’t try to hide.

Since the title suggests a catalog or editorial series (likely from a vintage or archive fashion/glamour modeling set), I’ve written it in the style of a retrospective photo feature or model spotlight. Golden hour, Gulf Coast, and a gaze that holds the heat Florida Sun Models - Claudia -4

What sets -4 apart is the light. Late afternoon, diffused through high haze, it catches the curve of her jaw and the small scar above her left eyebrow (a childhood bike accident, she’d later tell the photographer). The photographer—credited only as “Sully” in the Florida Sun archive—lets Claudia’s expression hold two things at once: the weariness of a long week and the spark of someone who still laughs easily. In the margins of the contact sheet notes,