Tag: 1950’s

Marilyn Monroe – Fiesta Magazine, July 1957

Not my normal post, but one I couldn’t resist! I’m a big Marilyn Monroe fan and I used to post images of her on an old blog, but there are so many images out there of her I got a little bored! I came across these shots and hadn’t seen them before and they were in an early Fiesta Magazine (July 1957), along with some other of my favourite models.  Anyway I loved the classic cover and her as the centrefold, so decided to post on here for a change :)

Enjoy!

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June in June! (1957)

June Simpson featuring on the cover and inside pages of Fiesta Magazine (June 1957), including the double page centrefold. These shots have June with short cropped blonde hair, rather than the more familiar long blonde curls when she posed for Harrison Marks.
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A Stunning Pamela Green Sketch!

I came across these shots of a Pamela Green sketch totally by accident over on Twitter and was totally blown away by them. They are done by the very talented artist Jennalee Auclair, who can be found on Twitter, Tumblr and pretty much everywhere else :)

The first image is of her sketch in progress, but even at that stage it’s obvious it’s Pam. the second shot is of the finish drawing and it’s amazing!

Both of these shots from Jennalee were obviously inspired by images of Pamela in the late 1950’s, when she had short dark hair and not the long blonde locks we are used to seeing. I would go so far as saying that the image below was used as the inspiration! 

I’ve tried contacting Jennlee to see if I can get a better copy of the finished sketch, so that I could publish it on here, but so far no luck! As an artist trying to succeed I’m sure she is far too busy, but based on what I’ve seen here and some of other other work I’m sure she will succeed, so good luck Jennlee and thanks for sharing such a great sketch of Pamela :)



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Lorraine Burnett by Eva Grant (1957)

Lorraine Burnett posing in a red and white polka dot bikini from Fiesta Magazine (June 1957). This was from a feature of articles by Eva Grant called ‘changecoat’ showing how the appearance of a model can be complete changed by clothes, hairstyles. lighting etc. This was changecoat No.6 featuring different images on Lorraine Burnett.
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Can You Guess Who? (1958)

Through-out his Kamera publications, as well as publishing full shots of his models Harrison Marks liked to intersperse close up shots of the nude female anatomy. Always tastefully done and posed it makes you wonder who the models actually were for these shots.  Some are obvious and you can have an educated guess at the model, but like the two above from Kamera No.9 (1958) I have no idea! Still a beautiful body and figure to look at whilst your trying to guess :)
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Sylvana Manto or Madelaine Bannister?

So I’ve been seeing more and more shots of Sylvana Manto recently, so I did some digging around to see where else she appeared. In doing so I came across several early publications of Spick and Span featuring Madelaine Bannister, who on looking I am sure is the same person? Going under the name Sylvana she appeared in publications such as Fiesta, Kamera Special No.1 around 1957 and Kamera No.9 (1958)

If I were a betting man I’d say they were the same person and the Sylvana name was an alias made up by the likes of Harrison Marks or Russell Gay, but then most models didn’t use their real name at all so maybe both are? Can anyone add further proof Sylvana and Madeliane are one and the same?

Either way I’ve got some great original shots of her coming up!

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