Poise & Pose is the seventh, and possibly the last (never say never), volume in Wolfbait’s Stephen Glass Collection. The book features a magnificent set of studio photographs by arguably one of the most outstanding photographers of the female nude in the post-war era. As the saying goes, the young Continue Reading
The 3-D Xploits of Douglas Webb
The 1950s was the golden era of 3-D movies with such classics as It Came from Outer Space, Creature From The Back Lagoon and Hitchcock’s Dial M For Murder. Just like the movie business, pin-up photography was a competitive game. Seeing the success of such movies, photographers such as Stanley Long and Horace Roye Continue Reading
Christabel Leighton-Porter as H.M.S. Jane
The delightful Christabel Leighton-Porter (1913-2000), aka Jane of the Daily Mirror, who was a muse for the cartoonist Norman Pett. To find out more about her, check this article I wrote a while back.
June Simpson — Colour Slides
Some studio shots of June Simpson taken from a couple of original 35mm Pamar colour slides. She was a very popular model, and George Harrison Marks photographed her a fair bit. Solo no.5 was dedicated to her, and she appeared in the following issues of Kamera: 2, 3, 8, 10, Continue Reading
The Irving Theatre Club — Revues with Vues
In post-war England, local theatres and music halls struggled to keep their audiences in the face of stiff competition from cinema and the relatively new medium of television. Variety shows, along with their increasingly all-important ‘girlie’ shows and striptease acts, were used to attract audiences, but they had to abide Continue Reading
Bullet bra sweater girl – Vera Day
By 1960 George Harrison Marks was looking towards the film world. In that year alone, he produced twelve short films, and in 1961 his debut feature Naked as Nature Intended was released. So it should be no surprise that his third book, Vera, was dedicated to the British actress and Continue Reading
Modern Sunbathing
It’s nice to see Pamela Green gracing the cover of an American magazine for once. Modern Sunbathing and Hygiene, from what I can tell, ran from the early 1950s to the late 1960s, by which time it had become Modern Sunbathing Quarterly. It claims to be the American edition of Continue Reading
Cinema au Naturel: A History of Nudist Film
I’m a bit late posting about this, but life has been busy the last few weeks. Anyway, I proud to announce the updated release of Cinema au Naturel: A History of Nudist Film by Mark Storey. The book was originally released in 2003 but has long been out of print. We’ve Continue Reading
Nudist Cult in Springtime
America artist, Georgia Warren putting the finishing touches to her mural, Nudist Cult in Springtime, which was exhibited at the 1935 World’s Fair in Brussels, Belgium. I wonder what happened to it. Does anyone know? Georgia Warren was born January 17 1899, in Davenport, Nebraska. She contributed black & white Continue Reading
Top 5 Nudist Films
To celebrate our release of Cinema au Naturel: A History of the Nudist Film here is our list of the top five British nudist films. Travelling Light (1959) Edward Craven Walker, the inventor of the lava lamp, was a keen naturist. He made three films celebrating the nudist lifestyle. Travelling Continue Reading