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
Vera Novak
Here’s a picture of George Harrison Marks directing Vera Novak on the beach. 1963 was a big year for Vera Novak who made her first appearance for George that summer in Kamera no. 54. She then had a significant splash at the seaside in no. 55 and was further exposed Continue Reading
Vampire starring Wendy Luton
A few years back, the British Film Institute took a look at sex and cinema. They made available online more than a dozen examples of British erotica dating from 1896 to the early years of this century. They range from a Victorian lady’s frilly petticoat to a fuzzy, brief shot Continue Reading
Nymphs and Naiads
Please to announce the release of volume six in the Stephen Glass Collection – Nymphs and Naiads. This time around, we venture out into the glorious British countryside to take in the view of beauty unadorned. The book is delightfully illustrated by Colin Gordon and comes with a short introduction Continue Reading
Stephen Glass Interview
STEPHEN GLASS, like his younger brother Zoltán, was born and educated in Hungary. After three years of intensive study in commercial art schools in Budapest, he earned his living as a designer, cartoonist, and painter. At the end of the first World War, he left Hungary for Germany, where he Continue Reading
Making friends naked
On this sunny spring day a befitting photo of a Pamela Green for you to savour. You guessed it, Stephen Glass took the photo. It’s from the early 1950s. The scan is from the original black and white negative. Does anyone know who the naked pretty lady on the right Continue Reading
Cover Girl – Cocktail #11
Pamela Green appeared at least eight times on the cover of the Swedish men’s magazine Cocktail. The A4 magazine printed on newsprint was a mixture of short stories, cartoons and pin-ups with a colour centrefold. Here’s issue eleven featuring Pamela Green “dressed” as Rita Landre. For issue 5 see my Continue Reading
Naked as Nature Intended — the Music
The story of the making of Naked as Nature Intended and its subsequent history has been rigorously chronicled by our illustrious editor, thanks to his enthusiasm for the subject and his priceless Pamela Green archives (which should be saved for the nation). However, as a film historian, the one area Continue Reading