When designing the covers for the William Welby books Naked and Unashamed, The Naked Truth about Nudism, and It’s Only Natural, I had the opportunity to colourize some black-and-white photographs by Stephen Glass. The results exceeded my expectations and inspired me to create an additional volume in the Stephen Glass Continue Reading
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Colourizing Vintage Nude Photographs
For some time now, I’ve been wanting to try my hand at colourizing vintage nude photographs from my collection. I finally got around to it. Here are a few samples of my work, showing the before and after images. I must say they came out pretty okay. The transformation from Continue Reading
Pocahontas: La Belle Sauvage
A charming picture of La Belle Sauvage taken by Stephen Glass in the mid-1950s. From the original negative. Model unknown. Somewhat off-topic, it was around this time that the publishers Cassell, who were founded in 1852 at La Belle Sauvage Yard, Ludgate Hill, commissioned a nude statue of Princess Pocahontas Continue Reading
Viva Espana! by Stephen Glass
Olé! Another early nude portrait of Pamela Green by Stephen Glass. This time with a Spanish flavour. There is something about the overall exotic appeal of Mediterranean women — maybe more so now since Brexit.
Pamela Green – an early Portrait
An early portrait of Pamela Green by Stephen Glass. The above image was scanned from a contact sheet as I didn’t have the negative. It needed a fair bit of clean up, but it came out rather well. The white lines are Stephen’s original mark-up. Pamela Green started modelling for Continue Reading
Nymphs and Naiads
We are pleased to announce the release of volume six in the Stephen Glass Collection – Nymphs and Naiads. This time around, we venture out into the glorious British countryside to take in the view of beauty unadorned. The book is delightfully illustrated by Colin Gordon and comes with a Continue Reading
Stephen Glass Interview
STEPHEN GLASS, like his younger brother Zoltán, was born and educated in Hungary. After three years of intensive study in commercial art schools in Budapest, he earned his living as a designer, cartoonist, and painter. At the end of the first World War, he left Hungary for Germany, where he Continue Reading
Full Frontal – Mina Felgate
Another delightful picture of Mina Felgate, a regular model of Stephen Glass, who frequently appeared in Health and Efficiency. See my earlier post on Mina for further details about her.
Nudist Camp Follies – Volume II
The other day I added a sitemap page to the website. Something I wanted to do for ages. It will make looking and finding past posts easier. Not just for you but for me as well. One of the things I noticed was I never did a post about the Continue Reading
Beauty Off-duty
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
