Yey! Just in time for Christmas — volume five in the Stephen Glass collection: Beauty Off-duty: Relaxed, Everyday Moments Caught on Camera. Glamour girls are mostly photographed in the studio or some exotic location, so one often wonders what they look like relaxing at home. Wolfbait Books is devoted to Continue Reading
June Palmer by Russell Gay
June Palmer (1940-2004) should not need much of an introduction to readers of this blog. Excluding Pamela Green, she was most well known and popular of Harrison Marks‘ models. She started modelling professionally in the late-1950s and in the 1960s she setup Strobe Studios in Clapham, South London, with her husband, Arthur Howell. Continue Reading
The Shakedown (1959)
Here’s a clip from the British crime film, The Shakedown, in which Augie Cortona (Terence Morgan) enlists the help of the curvey Sylvia (Linda Castle) to blackmail a client, in this case, Arnold (John Salew), using a two-way mirror. Readers of this blog will know Linda Castle as the Harrison Marks model, Continue Reading
Danny Kaye at the London Palladium
Pamela occasionally interviewed the stars who appeared at the London Palladium for the magazine Show by Axtell Publications. Harrison Marks not unexpectedly got to take the pictures. Here’s a rare picture of Pamela with Danny Kaye in his dressing gown. For those of you too young to remember Danny Kaye was as an Continue Reading
Swiss Model Studies – Vitus
Vitus is an interesting magazine from Switzerland of all places. Twenty-two pages including the cover. There is a three-page article on Physical Education, which quotes Horace Roye from his book Maids (Elstree Publications, 1947) and even talks about the Swiss Federal Constitution of all things! Eight of the pages Continue Reading
A Bit of Bush – Carneval #23
Pamela Green featured on the cover of another continental magazine — this time Carneval #23, from Sweden, published in 1966. An A4 magazine of 16 pages including the cover with a black and white interior. Not to be confused with the English magazine Carnival. Pamela, on the cover as Rita Continue Reading
Mina Felgate nude at Spielplatz
The enchanting Mina Maureen Liberoff (1931 – 2016), née Felgate, was born in Kensington and grew up during the Blitz. She became a professional dancer and popular model, and as a favourite of the photographer, Stephen Glass, pictures of her would often feature in the naturist magazine, Health and Efficiency — Continue Reading
Meet Jean Sporle at Peeping Tom Screening
On October 4th the Regent Street Cinema, in London, will be hosting The Soho A Go Go Film Festival. It will be a chance to see such films as Primitive London, Rattle of a Simple Man and Peeping Tom on the big screen. The screening of Peeping Tom will be Continue Reading
Limited Edition Print
The good folks over at Goliath Books have released a super limited edition print of Pamela Green at Spielplatz by Stephen Glass. Developed on metallic photo paper and limited to 30 copies, it comes from a rare uncensored negative of the young Pamela. It was taken in the early ’50s at Continue Reading
L’Art du Nu
What’s interesting about this German magazine from Hamburg is the cover image by Zoltan Glass of Pamela Green is in colour. I’ve only ever seen pictures from this photoshoot in black and white, such as this one.L’Art du Nu, Édition SpécialeArt Studies Modellkunst, No 13.Size: 205mm x 275mm16 Pages, no Continue Reading