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Monique Devereux – Breaking Free (1968)

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Monique Devereux (Monique Leitzau) posing beside some very big doors for Escort Magazine (April 1968). Apparently according to the blurb, which is always true (not!) she was training for the opera before coming to England to model! Well she definitely had the lungs for it!
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More Monique Devereux Amongst The Lily Pads!

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Monique Devereux up to her knees in the pond at Ewhurst from the pages of Nature’s Intention Vol.1 No.1. More of her in the garden of Ewhurst with the pond in the background can be seen here, which were probably taken at the same time. Also a different colour version of her also in amongst the Lily pads … here

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Nature’s Intention by Harrison Marks

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Monique Devereux posing in long dark wig on the ‘Mandarin’ set for the cover of Nature’s Intention Vol.1 No.2 (1969). I now have No.1 and No.2 of this superb super sized (10″ x 8″) magazine by Harrison Marks, each containing 64 full pages of uncensored shots of a range of his models. Most shots originally appeared in his other publications such as Kamera and Solo, but those were the retouched versions. These are bigger and bolder and have more bush in them than the Australian outback! More of which will be seen in coming posts.

Two questions though? Does anyone know if there were more than two and does anyone have a high quality image of the cover of No.1? My copy of No.1 was missing the cover, but complete apart from that, so I’d love a high resolution version of it if anyone has one?
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In The Garden With Monique

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Monique Deveraux posing in the long dressing gown that she wore several times and was a well used prop with GHM.  This was from the pages of Nature’s Intention Vol.1 No.1 ‘Harrison Marks – A Series of Natural Art Studies’ (1969) ans shows Monique in all her glory!  Takne in the grounds of Ewhurst Manor by with the small square pond in the background.
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Give Us a Call Monique! (Original)

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A restore 35mm slide of Monique Devereux posing nude for Harrison Marks in the late 1960’s.  Very odd setting with the colourful sheets, a coat of arms and an old fashioned phone, plus the obligatory rug!  MD still looks like she’s sucking her stomach in for this shot!
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Monique Up Close & Personal!

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Three very up close and personal shots of Monique Deveraux and her magnificent cleavage, scanned by ‘Dave’ and shared via Gavcrimson’s site. Beautiful big shots of her and all I’ve done to the originals is remove a few creases and scratches, other than that they are shown as originally taken 🙂

Thanks to Gav and ‘Dave’ for allowing me to share them here.

The photographer has now been identified as a B Giles from London, so if you know more about him or are him and see these, I’d love to know more about the shots etc?
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Monique – A Walk on the Wild Side!

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If you read this blog more than once you will know as well as publishing images of my favourite models from the 1950’s and 60’s by GHM and other photographers, I’m also interested on what happened to them beyond. Did the models carry on, did they retire or did they take up a totally unrelated career, are just some of the things that interest me.  Some are easy and already well documented such as Margaret Nolan, Pamela Green and June Palmer, but for others it is less well known what happened to them.

Well thanks to a great article by Gavcrimson on his blog a little more light has now been shed on Monique Devereux (Monique Leitzau).
A Monique Devereux (Original) Posing for GHM with a Studio Background.

Gav’s article aptly called ‘All the boys love Monique Deveraux‘ goes into detail about the less glamorous side of modelling and amateur photography through the eyes one of such amateur photographer named Dave.  I won’t go through the details as you can read Gav’s article from the link above, but what it does do is give us a small insight (via Dave’s own page) about Monique.

Dave’s own page about Monique (Here) throws up some interesting things about Monique post her GHM days, such as …
  • She lived and worked around the Tipton/Dudley area.
  • She worked as an assistant in a photo shop in Walsall and modelled for a photo studio attached to the shop.
  • She allowed a more ‘hands on’ type of photo session for some amateurs.
  • Her boobs were FALSE! She had silicone implants, this I did not know, but I suppose the hands on approach confirmed this!
  • She continued to live and work in a bar in the Wolverhampton area.
Dave also comments that he also photographed Paula Page and that she was fairly short and this made her boobs looked disproportionately large. He also enjoyed the softness of her boobs before she stopped modelling, which indicates another more hands on approach.

So for all the glamour we see in the publications of GHM, there was also a more down to earth side to the models, where they continued to model and earn a living through the avenues of amateur photography. Much to the pleasure of those such as Dave that had the opportunity to photograph these models and then share the outputs with us.

 Thanks go to Gav for a heads up on his article and ultimately Dave for sharing his insight into Monique!


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Breath in Monique!

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Another original image, this time Monique Devereux against the backdrop of a brick wall!  I must admit that MD isn’t one of my favourite GHM models  she always looks like she’s ‘sucking everything in’ when being photographed and it just doesn’t look natural.  Saying that she appears the same in nearly all of her shots, so perhaps I’m doing her an injustice!

On a more trivia note, we know that Monique Devereux (Monique Leitzau) was the name given to her by GHM, but was he a fan of the TV western, Hotel de Paree (1959–1960) as one of the main characters played by Judi Meredith was Monique Deveraux! I’m never sure of the Devereux spelling with GHM, as seen it in all these versions Deveraux, Devereaux, Devereux and I’ve probably used all versions at different times!  Add Marie Deveraux into the mix and it justs get damn confusing!



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