Stephen Glass (photographer)
Stephan Glass more commonly known as Stephen Glass, along with his younger brother, Zoltán Glass.[1], was one of a large group of talented Hungarians who fled westward before the Second World War.
Career and life
He was born in Hungary to Jewish parents. After three years of intensive study in commercial art schools in Budapest, he earned his living as a designer, cartoonist, and painter. At the end of the First World War, he left Hungary for Germany,[2] where he worked as art editor for the leading evening newspaper in Berlin[3] His brother, also in Berlin, founded the advertising photography agency, Reclaphot, and the Autophot agency, which specialised in automotive photography. Together with Peter Petersen, they took photographs for such firms as Daimler-Benz, Fiat and Auto Union. As Hungarian Jews, however, Stephen and Zoltán, increasing found working in Germany problematic and they eventually emigrated to England,[4] where they shaded a photography studio, in London.[5]
In the 1940s and 1950s, Stephen specialised in photographing nudes for such magazines as Health and Efficiency and The Naturist.[6] In addition, his work regularly featured in continental magazines such as Paris Hollywood, Femina and Modelstudier making him one of the most prominent photographers of the nude at the time. The models, June Palmer and Pamela Green both posed for him, and he frequently used Spielplatz nudist camp in Bricket Wood as a location. In 1950 he photographed the first Miss Venus contest at Speilplatz. It was the year Pamela Green won.[7]
Glass would often use his flat as a studio. It was on Old Church Street, less than a ten-minute walk from his brother's studio on the King's Road, London.[8][9]
In addition to magazines, his work graced a series of books published by The Naturist, such as Pool of Enchantment (1950), Beauty and Naturism, and Sussex Maidens (1949).[10] Stephen Glass died 23 April 1990.[11]
The National Portrait Gallery holds one of his works, a 1930s photo of "Sir Thomas Beecham, 2nd Bt".[12]
In 2017 Wolfbait Books began releasing a series of books dedicated to the photography of Stephen Glass. The series is called The Stephen Glass Collection, with the first book being Amazons of Yesteryear. The title of the sixth volume echoes that of a book by John Everard called Nymph and Naiad.[13]
References
- ↑ Zoltán Glass: Speed and Spirit. Hatje Cantz Verlag. 2000. p. 12. ISBN 9783775790505. Search this book on
- ↑ Klinger, D.M. (1991). Die Erotische Fotografie in den 50er Jahren 19 - Stephen Glass. DMK-Verlag. ISBN 3923642652. Search this book on
- ↑ Glass, Stephen (January 1951). "How I Take My Naturist Pictures". Health and Efficiency.
- ↑ Zoltán Glass: Speed and Spirit. Hatje Cantz Verlag. 2000. p. 20. ISBN 9783775790505. Search this book on
- ↑ Glass, Stephen (July 2020). Nymphs and Naiads. Wolfbait Books. ISBN 9781916215122. Search this book on
- ↑ Forcer, Tim (October 2020). "Raising a Glass". H&E Naturist: 55.
- ↑ "Miss Venus 1950". Pamela Green: Never Knowingly Overdressed.
- ↑ Glass, Zoltán (1959). How to Photograph Beauty. Whitestone. Search this book on
- ↑ Glass, Stephen (2019). Nudist Camp Follies Volume I. Wolbait. ISBN 9781999744182. Search this book on
- ↑ "Stephen Glass as Never Before". N, the Magazine of Naturist Livin. 39 (2). 2019.
- ↑ Amazons of Yesteryear. Wolfbait Books. 2017. p. 9. ISBN 9781999744113. Search this book on
- ↑ "Stephen Glass (died 1990), Photographer". National Portrait Gallery.
- ↑ Forcer, Tim (October 2020). "Raising a Glass". H&E Naturist: 57.
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