
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

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View of the model, Irene Warren, posing with a film camera for a Turners publicity shot, January 1957
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