By 1960 George Harrison Marks was looking towards the film world. In that year alone, he produced twelve short films, and in 1961 his debut feature Naked as Nature Intended was released. So it should be no surprise that his third book, Vera, was dedicated to the British actress and Continue Reading
Modern Sunbathing
It’s nice to see Pamela Green gracing the cover of an American magazine for once. Modern Sunbathing and Hygiene, from what I can tell, ran from the early 1950s to the late 1960s, by which time it had become Modern Sunbathing Quarterly. It claims to be the American edition of Continue Reading
Cinema au Naturel: A History of Nudist Film
I’m a bit late posting about this, but life has been busy the last few weeks. Anyway, I proud to announce the updated release of Cinema au Naturel: A History of Nudist Film by Mark Storey. The book was originally released in 2003 but has long been out of print. We’ve Continue Reading
Nudist Cult in Springtime
America artist, Georgia Warren putting the finishing touches to her mural, Nudist Cult in Springtime, which was exhibited at the 1935 World’s Fair in Brussels, Belgium. I wonder what happened to it. Does anyone know? Georgia Warren was born January 17 1899, in Davenport, Nebraska. She contributed black & white Continue Reading
Top 5 Nudist Films
To celebrate our forthcoming release of Cinema au Naturel: A History of the Nudist Film here is our list of the top five British nudist films. The book is currently available to pre-order from Amazon. Travelling Light (1959) Edward Craven Walker, the inventor of the lava lamp, was a keen Continue Reading
Viva Espana!
Olé! Another early nude portrait of Pamela Green by Stephen Glass. This time with a Spanish flavour. There is something about the overall exotic appeal of Mediterranean women — maybe more so now since Brexit.
Pamela Green – an early Portrait
An early portrait of Pamela Green by Stephen Glass. The above image was scanned from a contact sheet as I didn’t have the negative. It needed a fair bit of clean up, but it came out rather well. The white lines are Stephen’s original mark-up. Pamela Green started modelling for Continue Reading
Sheplegh Court – Naturist Hotel
Connoisseurs concerned with the entertainments of this blog, such as yourself, would no doubt have come across mention of Sheplegh Court, for it was a popular location for photographers of the nude. But did you know why? A gem of architecture in as wonderful a setting as Nature could devise, Continue Reading
A very British Arcadia
Due, in part, to the censorship laws of the 1950s, photographers often sought to cloak their work in respectability, using Classical allusions in an attempt to validate their “art studies”. There is a certain naive charm to captioning a photograph of a lady in a state of undress Nymph in a Continue Reading
9 Ages of Nakedness
I can’t believe that in all the years I’ve been running this blog this is the first post I’ve written on the feature film The Nine Ages of Nakedness. A film that the director George Harrison Marks boasted featured “150 girls in the all-together”. It was originally entitled The Seven Continue Reading