Over the last few weeks, I’ve been spending a bit of spare time working on the next book for Wolfbait. It’s going to Beauty Off-Duty, featuring relaxed, everyday moments caught on camera. Luckily for us, these amiable moments feature charming young ladies in the buff. One model that keeps cropping Continue Reading
Stephen Glass
Nudist Camp Follies – Volume I
Good news folks. The next volume in the Stephen Glass collection has just been released. Nudist Camp Follies – Volume I: An Intimate Look at the Natural and Free Atmosphere in Sun Clubs. A nostalgic look at naturism in 1950s Britain. Pamela Green, Audrey Wayne, Kim Foster and Lee Sothern Continue Reading
The Pool of Enchantment
Another publication from the Naturist. This time The Pool of Enchantment: Reflections on the Naturist Movement. First published in 1950, but reprinted for the third time in 1956. 64 pages with 24 pages of photographic studies of the nude by Stephen Glass. Being a font nerd I rather like the Continue Reading
Naked in the Menagerie
The next volume in the Stephen Glass collection has just been released. Naked in the Menagerie is a playful look at Eve accompanied by her animal friends. A portable exhibition of unusual images that will get you harking back to more innocent times. Photographed in the studio and on location Continue Reading
Don’t mess with these ladies!
Rummaging through my collection of Stephen Glass images I came across some pictures of wrestling women. They were unique enough to warrant more than posting a couple of images online. So I duly gathered the best of them together in a hardback volume called Amazons of Yesteryear, that can be Continue Reading
Sussex Maidens by Roy Wyatt
Sussex Maidens by Roy Wyatt, with a supplement of photographs of the nude by Stephen Glass, was first published in September 1949 by The Naturist. Sorting through some pictures I came across the negative of the cover image. The book is a rather amusing read with such chapters as Tall Continue Reading
Meet the Models – Lee Sothern
I’ve always had a soft spot for Lee Sothern (a.k.a. Grace Jackson). This joyful picture of her is by Stephen Glass, the brother of Zoltán Glass and is from an original negative. The poem below is from the magazine Meet the Models – No. 4, published by The Liverpolitan Ltd. Continue Reading
September Morn
September Morn is a painting by the French artist Paul Émile Chabas (1869 – 1937). A popular and highly marketable image it has been referenced by numerous artist and photographers over the years, as in this photograph by Stephen Glass. The original painting was completed in 1911. It was first exhibited Continue Reading
Nudist Life at Spielplatz
Nudist Life at Spielplatz, the story of a modern experiment in the art of living by Charles Sennet, with an art supplement of photographs taken at the Hertfordshire nudist resort by Stephen Glass, was published by The Naturist Ltd. in 1956. The 56-page booklet is pretty rare so I was Continue Reading
Tweet and Chirp!
A rather delightful rare image of a young Pamela Green getting all Disney with a budgie. As far as I know unpublished. Taken by Stephen Glass at Spielplatz around the early ’50s — if I’m not mistaken. Pretty sure the bird is stuffed. Taken from the original negative. SaveSave