August 1958
To turn shoppers on to their cameras, Newcastle-based photography shops Turners hired models to promote their work. The models’ poses were often uncomfortable, off-kilter and suggestive. The only man to feature in these awkward situations images was David Grey, a Turners staff member, who in a series of images from March 1962 (seen at the end of this collection) plays a feckless husband urged by his suffering wife to stop ogling women on the telly and get a hobby. Naturally, he buys a camera and his life is restored to full vigour and matrimonial bliss. (Perhaps his wife joined him in his new enthusiasm for photography? )
March 1955
Studio shot of the model, Lisa Trent, May 1958
Turners staff member, Dave Grey, models for a publicity shot, June 1961
Model, Annette Fowley, poses for a Turners publicity shot, May 1963
March 1963
Rita Fisher, February 1955
Rita Fisher, posing for Turners, February 1955
July 1964
October 1958
October 1958
Model posing for Turners, June 1958
August 1958
View of model, Doreen O’Shea, posing for Turners at Holywell, July 1957
July 1964
View of model, Annette Fowley, posing for a Turners publicity shot, May 1963
Rita Fisher, posing for Turners, February 1955
August 1957
odel, Rita Fisher, posing for Turners, February 1955
May 1963
View of the model, Ann Dover, posing for a Turners publicity shot, May 1963
March 1955
May 1963 (
View of the model, Irene Warren, posing with a film camera for a Turners publicity shot, January 1957
THE IDLER
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