June Palmer – A Fabulous Pair of Door Knockers!

The first post from my recent purchase of the Kamera Special ‘The Fabulous June Palmer’ by Harrison Marks (1964). This shot shows a topless June in slacks posing in front of the cottage door at Ewhurst Manor with a cracking smile on a 20 something model. This Kamera Special dedicated to June was 64 pages and shows June in various poses on different sets throughout her early modelling career with GHM.
It was difficult to decide where to publish this as it covers both of my blogs, The Kamera Club for Harrison Marks posts or here for posts dedicated to June, so I apologize now for the duplication across both, as for completeness it should sit on both :)

Ann Walker by Terry Sparks, Part 2 (Original)

The second of two simple but stunning shots of Ann Walker taken in 1964 by Terry Sparks and a companion to this first shotI find it amazing that Terry had access to Ann and all the other models I post on this blog, so asked him the simple question, so who have you photographed? His answer below is a list of who’s who from this site and an impressive list of models.

‘You were asking which of the girls on your model listing I had worked with, so I have named them below. I have a few memories of most of them, but I won’t elaborate at the moment. One girl I worked with was Bridget Leonard. She was Russell Gay’s live in girl friend and ran the office in Oxford Street for him, which was the mail order outlet for Venus Films. Venus Films was the company he set up to market the black and white 8mm glamour films that we produced. They split up around late 1967 early 1968 if I remember correctly.
Ann Walker, Bridget Leonard, Britt Hampshire, Caroline Coon, Caron Gardner, Cindy Neal, Cleo Simmons, Danielle Denise, Geri Brown, Gillian Evans, Gloria Lomax, Julie Collins, Lena Ellis, Lee Southern, Maria Frost, Maya Zell, Nicky Stevens, Nicole Yerner, Pam Arnold, Patsy French, Penny Winters, Rena Brown, Teri Martine, Terry Graham, Terry Peters, Tina McGowan, Toni Burnett.

There were others that I met or knew but did not photograph like Jutka Gotz, Margaret Nolan, Eve Eden and of course June Palmer who I dealt with when she was running her model agency.’
A pretty impressive list and thanks to Terry for sharing and I must ask him about some of the lesser known models on that list as I have very little to post on some of them!

Molly & The Mussels (1964)

About time I published some more Molly Peters and this one comes from Kamera No.56 (1964). Molly seen here posing on what looks like a very uncomfortable spot of a rock covered in mussels on location with Harrison Marks. Probably down in his favourite Cornwall location.

Vera Novak – Kamera No.57 Cover (1964)

My latest Kamera purchase dropped through the door today and I love the orange cover featuring Vera Novak.  Not sure about the heavily retouched/censored parts though as they make her look like a shop mannequin with that smooth nether region!

Annie Walker by Terry Sparks (1964)

A simple but stunning shot of Ann Walker taken in 1964 by Terry Sparks and one that comes with a story attached :)
Terry recently found the site whilst searching for one of his favourite models, Gloria Lomax and decided to contact me. It transpires that Terry spent three years working for Russell Gay from April 1966 to late 1968. What many people don’t know, is that Russell Gay lost interest in taking pictures around 1965 and thereafter concentrated on publishing, particularly QT, Fiesta and Knave. He employed Terry and Ken Williams to shoot for him. So although pictures were still going out stamped “Russell Gay Studios” they were in fact taken by Terry or previously Ken Williams. Russell did continue directing 8mm films but left the running of the studio, finding models etc. to Terry. As Terry stated it became quite frustrating to see his photographs being published with Russell’s name on them, but as he paid a reasonable salary Terry lived with the fact. After Terry left RG’s employment he went freelance, but still worked out of his studio and he also let him use a small office on condition that Russell got first refusal on any thing that Terry shot. This meant that Terry was still effectively shooting for Fiesta and Knave but it also allowed him to sell any pictures Russell did not want to his agents in the States and on the Continent.
Terry sent me the above photo which he took of Annie Walker in May 1964 before he worked for RG. Terry later became friends with Ann and remembers spending one afternoon wallpapering her bathroom in her new flat after she split with Ed Alexander. What a great story!
A big thank you to Terry for the wonderful story and image of Ann, as these are the things that make doing this site such a pleasure. Terry has promised to keep in touch and provide more stories and information and I already have another shot of Ann and some memorabilia from him.

Note: This is an original image and subject to this copyright notice, but can be individually shared as long as the image remains unaltered and this website is acknowledged as the source.

Tantalizing Tina (1964)

Tina Graham (Christine Carter) in the reflection of a mirror looking very serious! Taken by Ed Alexander and published as part of his book – Ed Alexander Photographs English Beauties. He seems to have had a flair for this type of shot as there are other reflection/mirror shots in the same book, all equally as enthralling.

Paula King The Redhead! (1965)

Three restored shots of Paula King wearing an auburn wig and purple high heels posing in front of a very dodgy old armchair. Restored from 35mm slides and dated 13th November 1965 and the middle shot almost shows us a bit more than normal of Ms King! 

Petrina Forsythe – She Walks in Beauty (1964)

Two contrasting shots taken of Petrina Forsythe by Harrison Marks from She Walks in Beauty (1964). The top shot a typical pose on the beach that many models adopted for this publication, but the bottom one a more arty shot using an old derelict tin mine as a backdrop.

Gloria Lomax by Harrison Marks (1964)

Gloria Lomax (Donna Ambrose) showing all in this restored colour 35mm slide by Harrison Marks (May 1964). Another uncensored shot giving us a glimpse of Gloria below and the fact that although she shaved. Although she didn’t completely, so a ‘French Wax’ or landing strip, that is so popular today and probably rare in the 60’s as they usually seemed to have nothing or everything.