Tag: Vintage Pinup 1960’s

A Red Dawn


A photo from my own collection of Dawn Grayson images that I’ve collected over the years. This must go down as one of my favourites of Dawn with her clothes on, well some clothes anyway! This was scanned from a medium format colour negative (120 film). Dawn is wearing her familiar blue and white bikini that she wears in many other shots, so maybe it was one of her own rather than provided by the photographer? I also love the use of the lighting to her left highlighting her red hair and the look she is giving the camera, simple but effective.

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Dawn Grayson – Beautiful Britons No.122 Cover (1966)

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Dawn Grayson on the cover of Beautiful Britons No.122 published by Toco. I’m really not quite sure why they tended to enhance the images on the covers of some editions like this, where it seems the image has been given a painted cartoon effect? On this version they seem to have enhanced the blue of Dawn’s eyes and made her red hair look almost grey! Not really complaining, after all it’s still Dawn :)

 

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Pam The Saloon Girl! (Original)

A scan from an original medium format negative that I haven’t cropped as there is so much going on in the shot it seemed a shame to lose anything from view. Pam looks as stunning as ever posing naked between the saloon doors in the boa, big hat and fancy boots, but I also love the wanted poster to the left! Trigger Shongold is none other than Stuart Samuels, Harrison Marks long time friend who pops up in numerous guises in various glamour films and images by GHM.

A fabulous still of Pam on the Saloon set worthy of showing uncropped I think and a big thank you as always to Simon for sending over numerous original images of Pam, including this one from his vast collection :)

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Lee Southern – Sunhat & Straw! (Original)

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Lee Sothern (Southern) or Grace Jackson wearing just a sunhat as she poses with a piece of straw in the grounds of Sheplegh Court. Scanned from a glass photographic plate and taken in 1960 when she was apparently 24!

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June Palmer – Stunning & Statuesque! (Original)

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I have over the last few years amassed a significant collection of June images from throughout her career, both glamour and normal none glamour shots. Some are on holidays, some just candid shots of June out and about.  Sometimes you come across a shot of June that just makes you stop and enjoy the view and this is one of those shots! It’s not a glamour nude, just a shot of June posing for the camera in a gateway wearing a bikini, but her pose, figure, hair and even the look on her face just make it one of those photo’s that makes you stop and enjoy!

A stunning shot of June and her figure taken in the 1960’s by Arthur Howell at a guess? A big thanks to Kevin who sent this copy of the original over and who is selling the actual negative of this shot over on eBay if you are interested in owning it?

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Gina by Rosalinda

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The cover of Gina by Rosalinda which was a small format magazine full of images featuring ‘Gina’ or as we know her Ann Austin! I’ve seen other magazines ‘by Rosalinda’ and had always assumed incorrectly that this was the name of the publisher or such. It actually turns out that Rosalinda is a female photographer and this magazine actually features a part mirror selfie of Rosalinda and Ann. Well there you go another thing I didn’t know!

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Photo Session Featuring June Palmer (Video)

Time for another glamour film from the Harrison Marks library and this is another from the Kamera Cine Film collection, but is a double whammy as it also includes both June Palmer and Harrison Marks himself. This is Kamera Cine Film No.34 titled ‘Photo Session’, a 75 ft. black and white film taken in 1963. The exciting part about this film, other than it featuring June in her prime, is the location, which is one of my favourite locations, Ewhurst Manor. In this 6 minute film we not only get to see June in various poses for GHM, but in different parts of Ewhurst. We see the cottage door to the left of the main house, one of it’s bedrooms, the familiar main front door and various parts of the garden. For me seeing Ewhurst as part of the film always seems to add more than just as a background to a photo.

The premise of this film is again a simple one. June seems to be pretending to live at Ewhurst, when Harrison Marks turns up to take some photographs, she then strips off to pose for him in various locations. All finished off with a post session cigarette before she waves him off, giving us one last longing view of her body. What else could any hot blooded male want from such a film!

 

 

*This film is copyright George Harrison Marks Enterprises Limited

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