Kamera on Location (1958)

In July I eventually managed to get hold of a copy of the 1958 hardback publication of 'Kamera on Location' by Harrison Marks. I've been after this book for sometime, but whenever it appeared on eBay it always went beyond my financial limit, due to it's rarity.  Anyway one came up in July on eBay and I found it by accident as it wasn't published under Harrison Marks, but vintage books. The condition was down as very good, but missing the dust cover and a price of £30, so I decided to go for that price and see what happened, well after 7 days of waiting to be outbid I won it for the asking price and a day later it turned up.

For those purists out there the lack of dust cover may have stopped most people, but for me I was after the book and content itself.

As you can see upon inspection the condition of the book itself is spot on, with the internal pages being clean, crisp and clear. The images of Pamela Green, Marie Deveraux & Lorraine Burnett within are exquisite, as you have seen from the scans here. So from my point of view worth every penny and another of Harrison Marks books to my growing collection. I now have Pamela & Kamera on Location, but still missing an actual copy of Vera & She Walks in Beauty, although I do have full scans of both books :)

As an added bonus, included in the book by the seller was the article below from an unknown magazine all about Harrison Marks and Kamera on Location, plus the inside parts of the dust cover.

I love this book and hope you do as I post more pages of it in the coming months ... Enjoy!

Pamela Green - The Golden Hour!

Did Pamela Green ever take a bad photo? Looking at those I've published and seen so far I don't think so, in fact the camera loved her and whatever pose she tried seemed to work. 

The above image is a good example of her at her best posing for Harrison Marks on the Scilly Isles for Kamera on Location (1958). Taken with one of GHM's Rolleiflex (F.16/125) with a medium green filter in the golden hour (The hour before sunset) it captures Pam's glistening body in the setting sun to perfection.  The shape she had her body, the curve of the hip toward the camera and not even looking at the camera all set this shot up and seems so effortless. Truly the golden age of glamour photography I believe!

June Simpson - What's New Pussycat!

June Simpson posing on a leopardskin rug from Photographic Rhythm No.1. Another great shot from Lawrence Venn of June, but it again looks cut out and pasted on a white background!

A Vintage Year for Lorraine Burnett!

Lorraine Burnett on the front cover and inside pages of Monsieur No.10 (Late 1950's) posing in a black negligee and nude with a backdrop of wine bottles in a rack. What a nice rack it is!

Margaret Warhurst - A Classic 1950's Glamour Pose

A restored 35mm slide featuring a young Margaret Warhurst, scanned and restore from a Walton Glamour slide from the late 1950's. A simple, but mesmerizing pose of Margaret on a chaise lounge!

An Impressive Bush From Carla!

These 2 shots are from restored 35mm slides, that were again originally colour but so badly faded I converted them to black and white. Both shots are of a model named 'Carla' on the slides, but I have no doubt that this is also Pat Ebden showing us a lot more than usually seen with her! A sneak peak of her in the top shot, then full on bush in the bottom shot although a little blurry! 

To validate my reasoning that it is Pat Ebden, look at this shot of Pat & Tina Madison, same bed but different background and looking at Pat I would say taken at roughly the same time? I prefer the top shot and pose, just showing us a glimpse of something we shouldn't see :)