What this Polaroid of Cindy Crawford reveals about a 1991 swimwear shoot

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The first time Cindy Crawford worked with the provocative fashion photographer Helmut Newton, the supermodel shed her all-American persona for a dalliance with Monte Carlo for US Vogue. The swimwear shoot, published in the November 1991 issue, famously featured Crawford in a dark one-piece and heels standing on a public monument in the luxe Monégasque district, as well as erotically laying on stage in front of three blindfolded musicians.

But a lesser-seen Polaroid image of the shoot will soon go on view, part of a wider…