Ken Russell

Summer 1955: Helen May
Lady in costume watering her flower in a hip bath window box.

Spring 1955: We Regret to Inform You…
From a series entitled Zora the Unvanquished. The original caption read: ‘For 30 years, 72-year-old Zora Raeburn wrote novels and sent them to publishers. With not one acceptance, she never despaired. In her flat near the British Museum in London, where she let two rooms to pay the rent, she typed innumerable letters to publishers, libraries, film studios and radio producers. She begged on her cello in London streets then took a job as a shorthand typist to supplement her old age pension and published one of her books herself.’ Photo shows Zora with a montage of the rejection letters she received from publishers.

Frances Pidgeon with a penny farthing bicycle, 1956 - Ken Russell

Pistols at Dawn, 1956 - Ken Russell

dgroundsel:

Ken Russell, Spring 1956: Rock with your hands. Dancers in the Cat’s Whisker, a popular coffee bar in London’s West End, devised a means of dancing using hand gestures because there was no space to manoeuvre.

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Teddy girls

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Ken Russell, Teddy Girls

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A picture is worth # 1: Teddy Girls Photo by Ken Russell