Here’s a picture of a very dapper looking George. I presume at the Gerrard Street Studios in the early ’50s. On the wall centre right is a picture of Norman Wisdom. The other two portraits I recognise but can’t put a name to them. SaveSave
Photographers
Embark on a journey through the lives and lenses of the photographers who defined the glamour photography landscape of the 1950s and 1960s, such as Eva Grant, George Harrison Marks, John Everard, Horace Roye, Stephen Glass and his brother Zoltan.
Jean Straker and The Visual Arts Club
A 1950s contemporary of Pamela Green’s was the photographer Jean Straker. An interesting character by half. To my knowledge, he never photographed Pamela, but she did have a copy of his book, The Nudes of Jean Straker, on her shelf. I feel as if Jean Straker was too arty and Continue Reading
Joan Craven (1897–1979)
Above a photograph of Pamela Green by Joan Craven, who photographed Pam several times. Joan shared studios with Walter Bird at Kinocrat House on the Cromwell Road, London. Don’t have much information about her. If you can help please email me or post something. Below is the text from a short article in Continue Reading
Bertram Park (1883-1972)
This has to be one of my favourite portraits of Pamela Green. It is by Bertram Park, a highly regarded establishment photographer whose body of work encompassed not just figure studies, but still lives and society portraits as well. His reputation was such that various European crowned heads would visit Continue Reading
George Harrison Marks at the BFI
Who links George Harrison Marks, The Beatles, Ken Russell, Peter Cook, Richard Lester, Fairport Convention, The Goons, The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, cartoonist Bob Godfrey (Roobarb) and Turner Prize-winning artist Jeremy Deller? The answer: Mr Bruce Lacey. And if Bruce Lacey himself has somehow remained ‘off our radar’ in recent Continue Reading
The Birth of Venus by Angus McBean
A parody of Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus by the photographer Angus McBean, featuring Pamela as Venus and David Ball, Angus’s boyfriend as Zephyrus, the Greek god of the west wind. I think it appeared in Lilliput in 1952. SaveSaveSaveSave
Pamela Green by Zoltán Glass
A wonderful image of Pamela taken by the Hungarian photographer Zoltán Glass. Part of series of photos taken by Zoltán of Pamela for Lilliput magazine in January 1952. To see a colour image from this photoshoot see this post. SaveSaveSaveSave
Gerrard Street Exhibition
This ad comes from the magazine Gerry published by Gaffinia. According to the blurb in the front of the magazine it features American photography “designed especially for the British photographer studying the techniques of other countries”. No date but my guess it from around December 1959 / January 1960. No Continue Reading
Pam photographs Weegee
This is a bit of a special treat. A rare photo of American photographer Weegee (Arthur Fellig) being photographed by Pamela Green in 1959. Never before published. Weegee was a very frequent visitor to the studio in Gerrard Street. He also visited the set of Peeping Tom while they were Continue Reading
The Imp’probable Mr. Weegee
Renowned photographer Weegee (a.k.a Arthur Fellig (1899-1966)) befriended George Harrison Marks and Pamela Green when he was in London in the early ’60s. Famed for his graphic crime photos of the ’30s and ’40s few people realise that in 1966, two years before his death, Weegee starred as himself in Continue Reading
