Here’s another image of Pamela Green by John Everard. As before the image was taken around 1953/4 and appears in the book Second Sitting: Another Artist’s Model (The Bodley Head, London, 1954).
The Roye-Vala 3-D Proces
One of these days I will write a biographical post about the photographer Horace Roye (1906 – 2002). Roye set up the Camera Studies Club during the war. In 1954 he teamed up with a gentleman called Vala and developed The Roye-Vala 3-D Process, with which they had some success. Continue Reading
Second Sitting: Another Artist’s Model
Images by John Everard often appear eBay, but these photogravure prints are just pages ripped from his books, so it is quite a treat to come across an original print by him, especially one of Pamela Green. The image was taken around 1953/4 and appears in the book Second Sitting: Continue Reading
Desiree – Study from Life
Thanks to Russ over at The Kamera Club, for sending over this diverting picture of Pamela Green. It measures 9.5” x 6.5” and was published by Bemrose of Derby, which may have been a printing firm. It probably was a calendar. The surface of the photo has been coated with Continue Reading
A Bibliography of John Everard
Below is a list of John Everard books. The only two which are not figure studies are Photographs for the Papers and Seen in England. As you can see he had rather a long career, what with his first book having been published in 1923 and his last one in Continue Reading
Photographer John Everard
One of the photographers Pamela Green worked for was the self-taught John Everard, a First World War veteran and former tea planter. John Everard, along with Walter Bird (1903-1969) and Horace Roye (1906-2002) were the top nude photographers in the 1930s and ’40s. So much so they all decided that Continue Reading
The (Naked) World of Harrison Marks (1965)
After Naked as Nature Intended in 1961, George Harrison Marks’s next feature film was The Naked World of Harrison Marks (1965). This time, he would not only be the director and producer but as the title implied the star. The film is a pseudo-documentary look at his daily life, spliced Continue Reading
Betty Page – America’s Queen of Glamour
I’m not sure how many people would have been familiar with America’s Queen of Glamour, Betty Page in the UK in the 1960s. She certainly wasn’t the household name she is today. Her popularity stateside, however, was enough for Harrison Marks to dedicate U.S. Glamour No. 5 and Kamera Cine Continue Reading
The Naked Truth by Gavin Whitaker
I recently managed to get hold of a copy of The Naked Truth About Harrison Marks, the 1967 biography of everyone’s favourite alcoholic, cat lover, glamour photographer and reluctant pornographer. Rather like Mary Millington’s late 1970s biography, its a famous mixture of fact and fiction and best approached by having Continue Reading
Nude Studies for the Student
The magazine on the left was published by R.S. Gary Publications of 42 Grays Inn Road, London. The one on the right by The S. and M. Trading Co., which was next door at 44 Grays Inn Road. Both feature classic images of Pamela Green by Zoltán Glass on the cover. Continue Reading