Pamela Green

In post-war England, local theatres and music halls struggled to keep their audiences in the face of stiff competition from cinema and the relatively new medium of television. Variety shows, along with their increasingly all-important ‘girlie’ shows and striptease acts, were used to attract audiences, but they had to abide Continue Reading

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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