Ann Austin

Ann Austin was one of the most popular and long-active models of the ‘generation’ that began their careers in the later 1950s (like Lorraine Burnett, Paula Page, Rosa Domaille, Jackie Parker). In an early edition of Russell Gay’s QT she is described as the ‘most exciting new discovery of the year’ – the year was probably 1957.  She had the distinction of being the very first model to be featured in Harrison Marks’s famous Solo series.  Anne was tall, certainly five feet ten inches – in shoes at least, really high ones more.  ‘Anne was a big girl, Junoesque, but all the same assembled with enormous skill, so that everything balanced perfectly. If you didn’t think you liked big girls, Anne could make you change your mind … To cap it all, Anne was strikingly beautiful, with wonderful colouring, dark hair with coppery natural tints, and green eyes. A knockout … ‘She was a well educated and intelligent girl, softly spoken, and without any extreme accent, although from her background [middle-class, Kensington] one might have expected that … Money was obviously no problem in her family and I can only assume that she was modelling because she liked doing it, not from need’.

Ann Austin Images

Magazines:
Ahoy
Bounce
Candy
Connoisseur’s Choice and Modelling Review Vol.4 N.11
Dude 1963 (US)
Fiesta Special Collectors Edition: Top Glamour Models of the 50’s. (Harrison Marks reprints)
Fling 1963 (US)
Foles de Paris et Hollywood (Many issues)
Francoise. (Harrison Marks reprints)
Girl Illustrated Vol.5 No.6
Glamour Figure and Pin-Up No.19
Hi-Life (US) – Miss Hi-Life, August,1964
Kamera No.8, 10, 12 (Cover), 14, 20, 22 (Cover), 34, 35 & 60.
Kamera Classics 1. Nostalgia Publications. (Harrison Marks reprints)
Kamera Special No.2
La Femme No.1. (Harrison Marks reprints)
Mademoiselle No.10 Mermaid (issue unknown)(US Publication) Model No.3 & 4
Modern Man (US) – mid 1960s
Pagan 12. (Harrison Marks reprints)
Phot Studio – Many issues
Photo Studio Outdoor Album
QT 5 (centrefold) & QT 6
Silky 1
Six 2
Solo No.1
Spotlight
Studio Argyle Figure & Pin Up – photographed by Rosalinda