Parker Cars Magazine: Issue 4
All things great about London
All things great about London
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swinging london<br />
smile if<br />
you’re<br />
swinging<br />
A glorious new photo exhibition and<br />
luscious book celebrate the beautiful<br />
women of London in the swinging 60s.<br />
And, boy, did they swing.<br />
They may look corny and sexist now, but these photos of models and<br />
actresses by John D Green helped the original book they appeared in<br />
to sell more than 60,000 copies. It was called Birds of Britain (Imagine<br />
trying to market that title nowadays) and featured 1960s swingers<br />
such as Julie Christie, Dusty Springfield, Susannah York, Mary Quant,<br />
Charlotte Rampling, Marianne Faithfull and Jane Birkin.<br />
Fifty years on and the original book is being republished by<br />
Ormond Yard Press, with an accompanying exhibition at London’s<br />
Snap Galleries. Apparently, some of the original models are attending<br />
the opening. Just you try calling them “birds” nowadays.<br />
Birds of Britain, Snap Galleries, SW1Y 6NH, Oct 1 to Nov 26.<br />
28 where to, parker?
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