ANN AUSTIN

Real Name
Modelling Aliases Anne Austin

STATISTICAL DATA

Date of Birth 1939(?)
Age at start of career 18
Age at finish
Measurements 40-24-37(MG), 39-25-37 (MG>
Height 5'10" (Roger Davis)
Eye Colour Green - Roger Davis)
Hair Colour (natural) Brunette (with natural coppery tints - Roger Davis)
Hair Colour (dyed)
Wigs known to have been worn Blonde
Country/County/Town of Origin UK/London/Kensington
Town/County/Country moved to after retirement from industry
Ethnicity European

MODELLING CAREER

Photographers posed for Harrison Marks - Russel Gay - Roger Davis - Rosalinda - Irv Carsten
Studios Known to have worked at Kamera - Studio Argyle (6, Argyle Road, London W1)
Other models known to have worked with Lorraine Burnett, Frankie Amos, Delia Fox Duana Hedges and others
Duration of Career
From 1957 (approx) To Mid 60s (poss)

PUBLICATIONS FEATURED IN

MAGAZINES
Ahoy
Bounce
Candy
Connoisseur's Choice and Modelling Review V4 N11
Dude 1963 (US)
Fiesta Special Collectors Edition: Top Glamour Models of the 50's. Harrison Marks reprint
Fling 1963 (US)
Foles de Paris et Hollywood (many issues)
Francoise. Harrison Marks reprints
Girl Illustrated Volume 5 No 6. (possibly not the same Ann Austin)
Glamour Figure and Pin-Up No 19
Hi-Life (US) - Miss Hi-Life, August,1964
Kamera 8
Kamera 10
Kamera 14
Kamera 20
Kamera 20
Kamera 22
Kamera 34
Kamera Classics 1. Nostalgia Publications. Harrison Marks reprints
Kamera Special No 2
La Femme 1. Harrison Marks reprints
Madamoiselle 10
Mermaind (issue unknown)(US Publication)
Model 3Model 4
Modern Man (US) - mid 1960s
Pagan 12. Harrison Marks reprints
Phot Studio - many issues
Photo Studio Outdoor Album
QT 5 (centrefold)
QT 6
Silky 1
Six 2
Solo 1
Spotlight
Studio Argyle Figure & Pin Up - photographed by Rosalinda

FILMS

ANY OTHER PUBLICATIONS

OTHER INFORMATION

Pre-modelling occupations
Post-modelling occupations
Other occupations whilst modelling professionally

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION Ann Austin was one of the most popular and long-active models of the ‘generation’ that began their careers in the later 1950s (like Lorraine Burnett, Paula Page, Rosa Domaille, Jackie Parker). In an early edition of Russell Gay’s QT she is described as the ‘most exciting new discovery of the year’ – the year was probably 1957 – and she had the distinction of being the very first model to be featured in Harrison Marks’s famous Solo series. In a reminiscence of Ann published in Fiesta in the early 1980s, photographer Roger Davis recalled: ‘there was no capacity for harm in her make-up. I doubt if she was capable of rage, or even stress … I suppose the most important physical difference between Anne and the other models was her height. The others were mainly small girls – in height anyway, progressing to medium. But Anne was tall, certainly five feet ten inches – in shoes at least, really high ones more. I’m six foot, and I know I always felt the need to stand up straight and tall as I could when I was with her. ‘Anne was a big girl, Junoesque, but all the same assembled with enormous skill, so that everything balanced perfectly. If you didn’t think you liked big girls, Anne could make you change your mind … To cap it all, Anne was strikingly beautiful, with wonderful colouring, dark hair with coppery natural tints, and green eyes. A knockout … ‘She was a well educated and intelligent girl, softly spoken, and without any extreme accent, although from her background [middle-class, Kensington] one might have expected that … Money was obviously no problem in her family and I can only assume that she was modelling because she liked doing it, not from need’.

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