The Naked Truth About Harrison Marks

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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. But getting back to Raquel Welch, the cover shot comes from one of her most famous photo sessions, the same one that produced this excellent image and many others. Marks cats remained a fixture of his studio and can be spotted scurrying about in several of the 8mm glamour films of the period, occasionally even appearing in prominent roles.

Elle, Bob and Elizabeth merely shows three hippies fucking, and ends with a close-up of a newspaper headline concerning Lord Longford attending a performance of Hair; “Lord Porn sees nude musical Hair”, which presumably amused Marks, who wasn’t a fan of Longford or his female equivalent Mary Whitehouse. On the quiet it would seem the magazine secretly favoured the pros, given that the magazine’s articles on photography (written by Russell Gay) and further photographic advice dished out in the letters page come across as a subtle way of asking the amateur photographers to try and up their game. What a terrible duo” Marks told Fiesta magazine “in my opinion Longford’that “many prominent film agents and producers are readers of Kamera, and we are proud of the facts that in some cases this magazine has been the instigator on the first steps of discovery. Stripping off on a set decked out like a swanky modern apartment, replete with exotic animal skins, Green offers voyeurs a drink and a cigarette, before reclining on her couch. As well as The Naked World of Harrison Marks, Toni also fleetingly appears in the 1960s version of Casino Royale, and if Marks is to be believed was also a prolific stuntwoman. 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.

a question that was posed by many magazine articles of the day- the revelation that it was Green who had the idea for Kamera in the first place, as well as being the one who often procured the models for the magazine, further fuelled public interest in the pair. Probably at the height of his success here, Marks isn’t afraid to be flash, picking up June Palmer in his Rolls Royce in the opening credits, while at the same modeling a bespectacled, bohemian appearance. While his earlier 8mm films largely consisted of nothing more explicit than the models posing topless, late sixties titles like Apartment 69, Elle, Bob and Elizabeth, Worker’s Playtime, Touch Tongue, The Girl Upstairs, The Wrong Habit and The Amorous Masseur were generally soft core sex affairs. For all her best efforts, Vivienne, who had been raised in an orphanage, remained a fiercely independent spirit, an attitude that clashed with Marks who’d grown use to getting his own way.

It was not uncommon for Marks to spot a bloody corpse lying in the gutter on his way to the studio, corpses that would mysterious disappear by the time a policeman came along.

A master of publicity Tenser had honed his showmanship skills working as head of publicity for Miracle films, a popular distributor, before hooking up with Klinger, a former strip club manager with an ambition on becoming a movie mogul. In past times Dolezal would have been a local kook, but one considered harmless in the scheme of things. 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). Sobering up on the spot, soon he’d be snapping nude shots of her in his office, completely enraptured by her.

Marks other work for the American market at this time involved him selling photo shoots to Swank magazine.