The Naked Truth About Harrison Marks

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George Harrison Marks (6 August 1926 – 27 June 1997) was an English glamour photographer and director of nudist, and later, pornographic films. s The Chimney Sweeps which Marks produced and starred in, was devised as a comedy vehicle for himself and Stuart Samuels as well as a chance to put their old routine on screen. We have more of these we’ll get around to posting, and meantime you can see another here, and something very rare in a smilar vein published by Harrison Marks here.

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Reaching London, conversely, was much easier, because the approach was over German territory and water. Their hastily put together routine, which aside from a pinch of original material, was mostly stolen from other performers, was something they learned to perfect in the trial by fire experience of appearing in front of a demanding music hall audience “the difference between entertaining a gang of friends at a party and keeping a fee paying audience happy for eighty minutes is the difference between two worlds, and bridging the gap between the two can only be done with a lot of experience and heartache. From there Marks went on to work as a tea boy at a local film studio, eventually graduating to even more menial jobs like a clapper boy. At 17 Marks discovered the opposite sex, and much to his family’s surprise married Diana Bugsgang, a woman several years his senior.

Airbrushed fannies or not, such was Kamera’s continued success that by the early 60s the magazine boasted a loyal staff of around seventeen “around me, I have grouped a staff, not so much working on an employer/employee basis, but as good friends working together for the good of the magazine”, wrote Marks in Kamera no. has some neat tape reinforcing on the spine with an extra colour photograph of the cover girl June Shearing tipped in, attached only to the very top of the title page. Today she’s landed smack in the middle of America’s poisonous race debate and everyone in the Western world with an internet connection is aware of her.

Once Marks got down to business, Practical Photography found him to be one of the fastest photographers they had ever encountered, forever changing his positions and angles, taking photographs from above his head right down to sand level, “often his shooting poses are as interesting as the models” they noted, going on to claim Marks in action resembled a human tripod. The feminine side of my staff are in key positions and when an issue is ready for printing, the ‘mock up’ is passed around and comments are appreciated. He knew what he wanted, he knew how to get it, and he was never at a loss for a pose, a suggestion, or an encouraging remark” wrote Practical Photography, whose article encouraged budding photographers to follow Marks’ techniques, and no doubt resulted in a few of them dragging their missus off to the coast the following weekend in the hope she might turn out to be the next Pamela Green.Vivienne had previously made her presence felt on the glamour modeling circuit by appearing on the cover of Spick magazine, a shoot for Parade and a few 8mm glamour films including Russell Gay’s “Form in Abstract”. Supposedly influenced by the Nuevelle Vague style of filmmaking, Amour is said to depict a couples emotions during lovemaking. He was fond of good living and a drink or two, and he wanted to go on to soft porn," Green told Tit-Bits magazine in 1995, adding "there was this one film where he was dressed as a dirty old man and he's creeping round Piccadilly Circus, then you see him in bed with this girl".

An MO that matches Marks’ recollections of My Slasher Friend’s handiwork ,“I’ve seen some of the people he had cut up, he really mutilated them in a matter of seconds”. Sadly, these were not uncommon events during America's apartheid era, but Candid Press had no intention of doing any real reporting on it. He was an excellent photographer of nudes,” Tony Tenser remarked to John Hamilton in a 1998 interview, “but he also excelled in photographs of cats, that were much more beautiful than some of his nudes”. Another of Marks’ sidelines was providing record labels like Gala with cheesecake shots to go on their record covers, with a semi-nude Marks girl pictured on the cover no doubt helping sell many a record by no-body artists. Marks was also the photographic consultant for the film Peeping Tom, which featured Green in a cameo role.Naked World ends on a surprisingly sinister note with Marks having a nightmare, where he meets a hooded ghoul in a graveyard, sees himself (quite literally) digging his own grave and finds himself in a dungeon surrounded by chained-up nude women, their crime?