Dedicated to the published work of Harrison Marks & other prominent photographers of the 1950's, 60's and early 70's. Along with popular glamour models such as June Palmer, Pamela Green, Dawn Grayson and others
I haven’t published enough of Margaret lately, so to rectify that we have a great shot of Maggie on the bed in GHM’s flat and this was the first image on page 2 of Kamera No.48 (1962). What a great opening image to greet you with as you flick open this edition of Kamera! There are nine shots of Margaret in total in Kamera No.48 and they consist of her posing alone and with Maria Clarence on location down in Cornwall and all are as enticing as this shot.
I was looking for an inspirational shot for posting today and it came in the guise of this stunning shot of Virginia Green sent by Kevin. I love the pose of Virginia sat nude at the dressing table with her arms above her head with her fluffy slippers below her. The contents on the dressing table are interesting, we have talc (French Miss?), a compact and olive oil, what a combination! Thanks to Kevin as always for another great photo from his vast archive :)
This model or her name has been frustrating me since I started this blog a few years ago and the shot below was one of the first image restorations that I did. She’s been on my unknown model list as No.4 for a long time, that is up until now thanks to Jeff.
Jeff has now identified the model as Jean Belvin, who not only appears in Kamera No.11 (1958), but other early Kamera publications such as Kamera Special No.2 (1958) and Toco magazines and Carnival Magazine (June 1958) as sent through by Jeff below
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Thanks Jeff, another frustrating unknown model identified :)
A full copy of Kamera No.11 (1958) by Harrison Marks featuring Thelma on the cover.
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Molly Peters looking great outdoors in just a pair of tight slacks as she poses topless underneath an arbour from the pages of the 1960’s Glamour Book. Location could be anywhere, but I’d bet at it being one of two locations, Ewhurst or Walden can’t go wrong with that!
A shot of the Latin lolita ‘Thelma’ from Kamera No.4 (1957), but looks can be deceptive and who’s to say she didn’t come from London either a bit like Julie (Shearing). Regardless of where she originally came from at least I have a few more shots of this beauty and a cracking side shot of her this one is, love the uplifting boob and dark nipple on view!
What fantastic hips and curves on the figure of Yamille taken by Harrison Marks from Kamera No.48 (1962). There isn’t much known about this dusky Latin looking model and she only did one shoot for GHM, with those photo’s appearing inside Kamera No.48 & No.53. She was also featured in the 1963 Kamera Calendar and she appears in one set of 35mm colour slides (Set No.17)
Harrison Marks did three photo shoots with Rusty and published 37 photographs of her across Kamera No.50 (1962), No.51, No.53 and, 55 including the above front cover and eleven other pages. Shots of her also appeared in No’s 59, 63 & 74 and the large format hardback book ‘She Walks in Beauty’.
Rusty was originally a stripper from Soho and her full story ‘Rusty Gaynor: The Vice Queen’ can be found over on the Official Pamela Green site.
I found another shot of Jackie Parker in Kamera, this time in Kamera No.55 (1963), but from the same shoot as the others that appear in Kamera No.40. A familiar background used for other shoots such as Pamela Green, but great to see Jackie showing off her great assets (and pigtails) in Kamera.
A great shot of Caroline Coon from the 1970’s that appeared in Fiesta and was taken by Terry Sparks, which also had an accompanying little story from Terry about Caroline and her friend, which will make the above title a little clearer. Story from Terry below:
Also enclosed is one of my shots of Caroline Coon scanned from a page in Fiesta. I worked with her several times and I got to know her quite well and one day she brought her flatmate in to see me, an American girl called Marsha Hunt. Marsha was desperate for money and so I did a stills session with her and also an 8mm Glamour film shot at Ewhurst. She was very difficult to work with, full of her own importance and not really wanting to be photographed but needed the cash. A few weeks later she landed a part in the original London stage production of Hair and then later she met Mick Jagger and they had a child called Karis. I knew Mick Jagger vaguely as we both attended the same Grammar School, although he was a few years behind me. As far as I know, none of my pics of Marsha were ever published, I have a suspicion she may have done a deal with Russell Gay after landing her part in Hair, but I am only guessing.
I just love these little stories that come from Terry with his pictures as they give us a snapshot of things back then. Terry calls them bits of useless information, but I disagree :)
