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Femme Fatale: June Palmer



June Palmer    With June Palmer we see a transition from the classic pin-up glamour girl of the 1950's to the "tit queens" of the 1960's and 70's. That's not to say the 1950's bachelor was not obsessed with the bosom, but once we get into the mid-1960's the playfulness found in earlier pin-up photos is replaced with an overt sexuality. This of course is due to the budding sexual revolution and the general change society was going through during that time. 
    Palmer, a British-born beauty,started her modeling career in 1959 while in her late teens. She had that classic girl-next-door look, but when that measuring tape read 38-23-37, there was no denying her Va-Va-Voom quality.  Photographer Irv Carsten said this about Palmer in the March 1962 issue of Modern Man, "I felt ashamed using an automatic camera. Her posing is second nature, she's beautiful from any angle, and without camera settings to make, there's nothing to do but watch."
    Her popularity spanned both sides of the Atlantic due in a large part to the work of the famed photographer George Harrison Marks. Besides Palmer, Mark's models included a who's-who of 1960's UK pin-up dolls including Pamela Green, Paula Page, Lorraine Burnett, Vicky Kennedy, and Marie Devereux. These women followed in the footsteps of other famed British bombshells like Sabrina, Diana Dors,  and June Wilkinson
    Palmer continued posing for men's magazines through the late 60's, then became a camera club cutie. She also appeared in a few nutie-cutie shorts and films including "The Naked World of Harrison Marks." In 1977, when she was 37, she returned to the magazine pages posing for an amazing nude photo shoot for Mayfair magazine. Today, pin-up fans have rediscovered Palmer and the rest of Harrison Mark's British beauties, putting them on par with America's batch of classic glamour gals.

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