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 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 :)
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Two more film strips from the black and white version of the glamour film ‘Castaway’ sent by John W. The first shows a close-up of a topless June, the second June of June sat on a towel rubbing suntan lotion all over herself.
What I’ve also noticed having looked at these and the colour version of ‘Castaway’ that these stills were also taken at the same time as June has the same jeans on!
One of my own original negatives of June from the set of her sunbathing nude on a lilo/inflatable mattress on a patio. A different set of shots and you can see various items in the background, such as oil and a familiar towel. June looks very bronzed in this shot and that’s obviously how she never had any white bits, but my god doesn’t her body and curves look good glistening with oil.
I do have 5 other shots from this set, but not from original negatives, so not as good quality but will dig them out and publish them at some point.
Note: This is an original image and subject to this copyright notice, but can be individually shared as long as the image remains unaltered and this website is acknowledged as the source.
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)
Another original shot of June Palmer by Stefan Glass, this time taken in the studio as she sits and forms a very classical model pose. Elegance personified in the female form, shame about the creased photographic background!
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.
Two more shots of an older June posing at her home with Arthur Howell in 1987 and taken by Itsgardin. The rest of these shots that I’ve published so far can be found here, but these two are great semi candid shots with the last one showing June enjoying a tipple of white wine. The glass looks empty to me, so she either downed it or it wasn’t full when the shot was taken.
Thanks to Itsgardin for these two great shots.
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.
