June on Glass – Box 1, Plate No.2 (Original)

The second shot of June from the first box (12th August, 1960) of photographic glass plates scanned by John. All of these shots show a naked June posing in various potions for the camera and this shot is described on the box as ‘Kneeling on knees front hands under chin’. A beautiful clean shot showing June’s body at it’s best and completely untouched by censors!

Again, below I have a print from the same glass plate showing the ‘mark-up’ of the shot for publication or printing. I don’t recall seeing any of these being published though?

 

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June on Glass – Box 2, Plate No.2 (Original)

I’m slowly working through the scans of June from John taken from the photographic glass plates! This shot is the second plate from the box dated September 1960 and the description of June’s pose can be seen here. Again with these shots I also have a print of the same shot, but marked up with the cropped details (from Minimunster) and I will publish those anon.

 

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June on Glass – Box 2, Plate No.1 (Originals)

More of June posing Nude from the second set of glass photographic plates scanned by John W. This second set also includes 16 shots of June in various poses taken a month later than the first box (20th September 1960) and the box again lists each pose June did.

According to the list this is the first shot described on the box as ‘Kneeling one knee 3/4 view leaning on hands.’ Again, the original glass shot was a lot wider than the image above, which you can see below and again I’ve included the original marked up print showing how they wanted the shot to look for publication.

The marked up prints come from Minimunster and on looking, although from the original glass plates seemed to have become separated from the plates and numbered differently? Anyway hope you like my two cleaned up versions, one directly from the glass, the other the cropped version 🙂

 

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June on Glass – Behind The Scenes (Original)

As you will have seen in this post, John recently sent me a set of scans of June taken from glass photographic plates and that was the first image I had restored and published from the set. This post now gives you some more details of the fantastic set of images that John sent me, plus some information behind the set. John purchased two sets of photographic glass plates of June from a seller on eBay and they were sent in the original box with a description of each plate written on the box.

As you can see there are details about the model (June), the date of the shoot and then the glass plates listed with a description of the pose. The first interesting point is June’s apparent age on the box, showing her as 21 years old in 1960, which according to her date of birth isn’t quite right! If these were taken on 20th August 1960, she would actually have been 20 not 21, so was this a mistake or did she have to be 21 to have the photo’s taken, so a little white lie?

Also included in the box was a close up print of June wearing a necklace with the  image ‘marked up’ in red. So one assumes that this was the intended crop of the shot for printing or publication? I’ve included a scan of the ‘mark-up’ as well with some scratches removed, but otherwise left as printed.

I’ve included the original scan of this glass plate from John, which is No.1 on the box – Portrait (Half) with necklace. Again I’ve restored the image from the original glass scan, as it was very dark.

Finally I then restored and cropped the image as it was intended in the ‘mark-up’ for publication, which was the shot in my first post here

This is the first box of 16 glass plates from John and I have another set of 16 to edit and publish as well, so will do those soon. Another funny coincidence to this set, was that prior to John sending the scans through to me a few weeks before Minimunster had sent me some scans of 6 contact sheets she had of June. When I saw John’s scans I knew they looked familiar and looking back found the contact sheets, which on checking are all prints from John’s glass plates and all marked up with the intended crop for publication. I have small copies fo the contact sheets, but have asked Mini for larger scans so I can add them to this collection of shots for completeness.

Enjoy!

 

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June on Glass – Box 1, Plate No.1 (Original)

The start of a new set of over 30 images of June Palmer photographed in 1960, but what makes these more exciting is that these shots are scanned from original glass photographic plates that John has acquired! John has two boxes of 16 plates that he has scanned and sent over to me for editing and publishing, which I will share here over the coming weeks.

There is a longer story behind these than shared here, but more of that when I get more time, but for now I had to share my first edit from this set 🙂 Thanks John!

 

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