Past Masters of the Nude
Past Masters of the Nude is the latest release from Wolfbait. The book is a little bit different from our other publications. It is an illustrated bibliography of nude photography books published in...
View ArticleNude by Douglas Webb
Douglas Webb, is well known for his stills photography within the film and TV business. His career, however, was far more varied than most people released. He would occasionally turn his hand towards...
View ArticleColin Gordon: Wolfbait Illustrator
I thought I would write a little bit about Colin Gordon. Colin does the illustrations that appear in our books. He works in the games industry as a character designer and animator, but also works...
View ArticleFull Frontal – Mina Felgate
Another delightful picture of Mina Felgate, a regular model of Stephen Glass, who frequently appeared in Health and Efficiency. See my earlier post on Mina for further details about her. The post...
View ArticleNaked as Nature Intended — the Music
The story of the making of Naked as Nature Intended and its subsequent history has been rigorously chronicled by our illustrious editor, thanks to his enthusiasm for the subject and his priceless...
View ArticleCover Girl – Cocktail #11
Pamela Green appeared at least eight times on the cover of the Swedish men’s magazine Cocktail. The A4 magazine printed on newsprint was a mixture of short stories, cartoons and pin-ups with a colour...
View ArticleMaking friends
On this sunny spring day a befitting photo of a Pamela Green for you to savour. You guessed it, Stephen Glass took the photo. It’s from the early 1950s. The scan is from the original black and white...
View ArticleStephen Glass Interview
STEPHEN GLASS, like his brother Zoltán, was born and educated in Hungary. After three years of intensive study in commercial art schools in Budapest, he earned his living as a designer, cartoonist,...
View ArticleNymphs and Naiads
Please to announce the release of volume six in the Stephen Glass Collection – Nymphs and Naiads. This time around, we venture out into the glorious British countryside to take in the view of beauty...
View ArticleVampire starring Wendy Luton
A few years back, the British Film Institute took a look at sex and cinema. They made available online more than a dozen examples of British erotica dating from 1896 to the early years of this...
View ArticleVera Novak
Here’s a picture of George Harrison Marks directing Vera Novak on the beach. 1963 was a big year for Vera Novak who made her first appearance for George that summer in Kamera no. 54. She then had a...
View Article9 Ages of Nakedness
I can’t believe that in all the years I’ve been running this blog this is the first post I’ve written on the feature film The Nine Ages of Nakedness. A film that the director George Harrison Marks...
View ArticleA very British Arcadia
Due, in part, to the censorship laws of the 1950s, photographers often sought to cloak their work in respectability, using Classical allusions in an attempt to validate their “art studies”. There is a...
View ArticleSheplegh Court – Naturist Hotel
Connoisseurs concerned with the entertainments of this blog, such as yourself, would no doubt have come across mention of Sheplegh Court, for it was a popular location for photographers of the nude....
View ArticlePamela Green – an early Portrait
An early portrait of Pamela Green by Stephen Glass. The above image was scanned from a contact sheet as I didn’t have the negative. It needed a fair bit of clean up, but it came out rather well. The...
View ArticleViva Espana!
Olé! Another early nude portrait of Pamela Green by Stephen Glass. This time with a Spanish flavour. There is something about the overall exotic appeal of Mediterranean women — maybe more so now since...
View ArticleTop 5 Nudist Films
To celebrate our forthcoming release of Cinema au Naturel: A History of the Nudist Film here is our list of the top five British nudist films. The book is currently available to pre-order from Amazon....
View ArticleNudist Cult in Springtime
America artist, Georgia Warren putting the finishing touches to her mural, Nudist Cult in Springtime, which was exhibited at the 1935 World’s Fair in Brussels, Belgium. I wonder what happened to it....
View ArticleCinema au Naturel: A History of Nudist Film
I’m a bit late posting about this, but life has been busy the last few weeks. Anyway, I proud to announce the updated release of Cinema au Naturel: A History of Nudist Film by Mark Storey. The book...
View ArticleModern Sunbathing
Modern Sunbathing and Hygiene, February 1956. It’s nice to see Pamela Green gracing the cover of an American magazine for once. Modern Sunbathing and Hygiene, from what I can tell, ran from the early...
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