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
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.
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