The Naked Truth About Harrison Marks

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Harrison Marks came into this world at 4:30pm on Friday the 6th of August 1926, in Tottenham North London, his father Moss Marks, nicknamed “Mossy”, had seen action in WW1 suffering a horrific mustard gas attack, after the war Mossy tried to get into show business, eventually finding work as an actor’s agent. Both Carnival and Fiesta were the work of Gennet Press, a Birkenhead-based publisher that welcomed submissions by profession photographers- like Harrison Marks and Russell Gay, and amateurs alike. The Naked World of Harrison Marks disposed of the need to justify nudity by pretending to be nudist propaganda, and as a result the film was initially banned by the censor but swiftly passed by numerous local councils (the BBFC eventually passed the film with cuts in 1968). 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.

No such complaints were forthcoming over Marks or Russell Gay’s photographs, nor their choice of models, with both photographers’ work given pride of place in the magazine’s scant colour pages. British 1950s and 60s glamour goddess Pamela Green disrobes for the disreputable camera of lover and business partner George Harrison Marks in this key example of their cine-collaborations for the 8mm home movie market. Long, repetitive and exceedingly boring, the whole thing is shot in raffish colour and accompanied by a fulsomely silly commentary: "Harrison Marks is a dreamer, and the city of London is the centre of all his dreams" – cue for a few routine picture-postcard exteriors.

She used to crash cars into brick walls at 70 mph until I stopped her” he later remarked “I thought to myself, I‘ve either got to marry her or she‘ll kill herself”. Naked as Nature Intended was as badly reviewed as any other nudist film, but was still a massive hit when it opened in November 1961 at the Cameo Moulin cinema in Windmill Street “there were queues along both pavements, one stretching down to Shaftesbury Avenue”. The results of these raids were generally not good, but the use of zeppelins as bombers would continue until the end of the war.

For a valuable and rare set such as this I suggest we use a courier such as DHL , which takes a few days for most destinations worldwide. Anyway, here we go again into realms of historical smut with British photographer Harrison Marks and his famed erotic publication Kamera.

The lack of any nudity however, meant The Chimney Sweeps was hardly going to equal the success of Naked as Nature Intended, and it remains one of the least seen of Marks films, though recently unearthed evidence suggests the film played as far a field as Sweden where it popped up as the bottom half of a double bill with an old Laurel and Hardy film, a pairing Marks would no doubt have approved of. Sadly, these were not uncommon events during America's apartheid era, but Candid Press had no intention of doing any real reporting on it. Elsewhere articles on female lingerie and exercise techniques aimed at women, hint that as well as the amateur photographers, the magazine didn’t think their models were (quite literally) up to shape either. Further embarrassment awaited when Marks was invited as a guest on the BBC’s Tonight programme, and after running a clip from one of the comedy films, the less than impressed host Kenneth Alsop turned round to Marks and asked “what was funny about that?