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
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A restored print of a young June Wilkinson posing nude. This again comes from a collection of scanned original photo’s sent over by Ian one of my members. They were found by a friend of Ian’s in the eaves of his garage, when he was having a clear out from previous owner. This print was damaged in places by damp but are still a valuable archive and as you can see from above still good enough to be restored.
Five shots of Trudy Eyre (Angela Duncan) taken by Terry Sparks. As I said in a previous post I hadn’t realized that Terry had taken any photo’s of Trudy until he sent these, but then he explained he had and that her real name (or name on the cheques) was Trudy.
A couple of things you will notice about these shots. Some are very familiar and if you look on some of the vintage forums you will see similar images to these at the same location that have been published in various men’s publications during the late 1960’s and 70’s. Secondly and unfortunate, these images are only small and not up to the usually high standard I get from Terry, but there is a reason for that, which I’m sure Terry won’t mind me sharing. As Terry explains – “My own black/white files, some 27000 negatives were all destroyed in 2003 at the behest of her indoors. Something I have bitterly regretted ever since, as they would have been worth a few bob on Ebay. The only good news is that I took three or four shots of the best girls and transferred them onto a SVHS tape before the destruction took place. I am hoping to be able to digitise the tape onto my PC and then get some prints off, so far without much success.” Well Terry managed to get some images off the tape and those are the ones above.
Hearing Terry’s story I think I was as gutted to hear this story as he was! Think of all those great images I could have shared, but then I realize what I’ve already seen and shared and I’m glad Terry has shared what he managed to retain. Plus we do get a glimpse at some of the models such as Trudy that he had the pleasure of shooting over his career.
Thanks to Terry as always for sharing an insight into his collection :)
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Another Harrison Marks model that seems to favour big dangly ones (Earrings) is Julie Shearing, as seen in this original print of her from Oxxbridge again. A different angled shot this time, as she leans back against the flora wallpaper giving us a side profile of her earrings and body. What is also visible are the streaks in her hair, that she seems to favour in most shots I’ve seen of her. They look good, but tend to make her look older than she was and give her a Cruella de Vil type of look, but not so obvious!
Note: This image is scanned from an original print and subject to this copyright notice
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A stunning shot of a 1950’s beauty posing in a living room in just her matching pearl earrings and necklace, with just black high heels on. A very classy, but for some reason sexy shot and as you can see there is a theme to today’s posts! Thanks to Oxxbridge Galleries I have a set of 9 prints of this beauty posing in her pearls and it must have been at Christmas as one shot is of her like this next to a Christmas tree!
A very classic 1950’s hairstyle as well, but love her whole look and figure, all enhanced by the pearls and is it me or does she resemble Lucille Ball a little bit?
Update: Thanks to Phil who has potentially identified this model as Geri/Jeri Archer who was a model and actress in the 50’s and 60’s and appeared on The Phil Silvers show (Sgt Bilko). I don’t think we are 100% convinced this is her, more like 50/50, but the nose and stature are similar?
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She me be naked or topless, but Virginia Green has a cracking pair of earrings on, so that makes everything OK :) and to be honest it works! Back in the 1950s and 60s the models just seemed to look that bit more elegant or classy as they posed naked with their gloves or jewels on than they do today.
I love this shot of Virginia, as it looks as though she’s been out for the evening and then just stripped off leaving her hair up and earrings in place, and why not :)
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In between new posts and editing images I’m also trying to do updates to the current site content and one area I’m updating is the model profiles I’ve published. I’m currently working through Dawn’s profile, adding more images, adding a small database of magazine appearances, plus I’ll be updating her magazine cover appearances with better images, where I have them. One area that I was missing good covers was her early Beautiful Britons, Spick & Span appearances. In fact I have very little content of her from those appearances overall!
Thankfully that is about to change thanks to the generous support of Jonathan over at Vintage Fetish, who has kindly provided me with images of nearly all Dawn’s cover appearances for Town and Country Publications (ToCo). The above cover is the first good example of Dawn from Spick & Span Extra (Summer 1967), which like most of the covers from that early period has a certain painted effect to it, rather than a simple photo. A stunning cover of Dawn posing in an armchair with her hair in a plat, which I’ve never seen before!
Again, thanks to Jonathan for the covers and do go take a look at his site, as it’s my go to site for all Toco related publications and a great source for identifying unknown UK models.
Ah, the ‘Casting Couch’ as I call it makes another appearance, this time with June Russell posing on it for the lucky cameraman. I’ve posted a couple of June on this couch before here, but she must have had several wardrobe changes, as some she has gloves, panties and sometimes nothing. This one gives us a cracking view of June’s round arse with the black panties pulled up to reveal as much of it as possible without them being removed.
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A shot of the beautiful Maria Clarence posing nude sat atop a dressing table from a huge set of 42 images of her posing in different rooms around a house. This shot is one of 10 of her posing in what seems to be a dressing room area. A stunning shot of her, but I’ve said it before, didn’t she have hairy arms!
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Another unrelated, random shot I found that I like is this one of Paris Latin Quarter dancer Elaine Gallo by Peter Basch in the mid 1960’s. A perfect side view of her voluptuous body and big round tits worth sharing I thought!
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A double meaning to the title this time, in that it’s a play on Eva’s surname Wild and a bit of a wild shot as she’s laying on a leopardskin rug :) Still a great early shot of Eva Wild by Harrison Marks, but he did like his animal skin rugs back then didn’t he!
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