(In the 1950s Marks and Pamela Green opened a photographic studio at 4
Gerrard Street,
Soho.
Marks provided nude photographs for photographic magazines on a
freelance basis as well as selling his own stills directly. With the
profits from this work, they launched
Kamera magazine in 1957.
[2] Kamera featured Marks'
glamour photography of nude women taken in the small studios or Marks' kitchen.
[1] June Palmer began modelling professionally for Marks in the late 1950s and became one of his most famous models.
[4] Marks' 1958 publicity materials contained one of the first uses of the word "glamour" as a
euphemism
for nude modelling/photography. The magazine was an immediate success
and the business expanded to employ around seventeen staff by the early
1960s, selling a number of other magazine titles such as
Solo,
[5]
postcards and calendars, and distributing imported French books and
glamour magazines. Photographic exhibitions were held at the Gerrard
Street studio.
[2])