Product Description: Over the last four decades, the fashion modeling industry has become a lightning rod for debates about Western beauty ideals, the sexual objectification of women, and consumer desire. Yet, fashion models still captivate, embodying all that is cool, glam, hip, and desirable...read more

Product Description: Over the last four decades, the fashion modeling industry has become a lightning rod for debates about Western beauty ideals, the sexual objectification of women, and consumer desire. Yet, fashion models still captivate, embodying all that is cool, glam, hip, and desirable...read more

The most lucrative genres of photography--editorial, fashion, beauty and advertising--all depend on great, original sessions with models; and what makes a good photographer great is doing it consistently, time after time. Meanwhile, photographers always need models who will be professional, creative, and easy to work with. With SHOOTING MODELS, photographers and models alike will learn the key skills to help them advance in the business. In this book, top model Franki Falkow and pro photographer Adam Duckworth collaborate to cover all the bases, from booking models to lighting technique. Breaking the process down into logical steps ensures that your results will be stunning, and it will be an experience you'll repeat time and again. You'll learn to understand the model/photographer dynamic and how to run a smooth and productive shoot; you'll learn how to create a professional portfolio that will impress editors, agencies and clients alike; and you'll learn to marry technical expertise with the "soft skills" to yield shots that connect with an audience.

Product Description: Kendall Jenner is much more than just the younger sibling of some of the most famous women on reality television, and readers discover why through engaging, high-interest text. They explore how her career expanded following the success of her familys hit television show, Keeping Up with the Kardashians...read more

Product Description: Sociologist Ashley Mears takes us behind the brightly lit runways and glossy advertisements of the fashion industry in this insider’s study of the world of modeling. Mears, who worked as a model in New York and London, draws on observations as well as extensive interviews with male and female models, agents, clients, photographers, stylists, and others, to explore the economics and politics—and the arbitrariness— behind the business of glamour...read more

Product Description: Who wouldn’t want to wear gorgeous clothes, travel the world, hang out with stars, have adoring fans – and get paid a fortune for it? But is that what the life of a model is like? World-famous fashion guru Jeanne Beker offers a unique insider’s look at the reality behind the glitz...read more

Product Description: Kelle James left an abusive home at the age of sixteen and went to the best place she could imagine: New York City. She had big plans of becoming a model, but within a week she was homeless and broke. What follows is her exceptional story of trying to make it on her own with nothing to her name and no one to trust...read more

Product Description: Every year, hundreds of the most beautiful people in the world come to New York to become models. At age fourteen, Cheryl Diamond was one of them. Living on her own in a run-down apartment, Cheryl spent her days on go-sees, runways, and shoots, surviving hand-to-mouth, while taking in everything she could about the tough and sleazy modeling industry...read more

Presents the different types of modeling, how to get started in modeling, and supermodels of the past and present.

An expose of the modeling industry recounts the stories of the top models and reveals the ugly convergence of sex, wealth, drugs, obsession, and death behind the glamour

Examines the career and personal life of the London-born supermodel who began her career while still a teenager.

An award-winning investigative journalist exposes the true nature of the modeling industry by tracing the rise of well-known supermodels, and revealing how many models are misled into a world of drugs, sexual slavery, eating disorders, violence, and murder. Reprint.

Product Description: Jobs in retailing, modeling, and the fashion business can be difficult to obtain. This book can provide the competitive edge. Resumes shown contain jobs such as Assistant Sales Manager, Beauty Consultant, Model, Retail Buyer, Cosmetics Specialist, Merchandise Manager, Sales Associate, Jewelry Store Manager, Music Store Manager, Customer Service Manager, District Supervisor, Fashion Merchandising Student, Salon Manager, Territory Manager, and many others...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Offers advice on how to achieve the perfect manicure, how to repair broken or split nails, how to use soaps and lotions, and discusses how hands are used for communication, hand-reading techniques, and legends surrounding hands. (view table of contents)

A biography of the fashion model, who has also become involved in acting and community service activities

A biography of the fashion model, who has also become involved in acting and community service activities

Presents a portrait of the modeling industry tracing the rise of well-known supermodels, and discusses how many models are misled into a world of drugs, prostitution, violence, and murder. (view table of contents)

Features interviews with many of the world's top models, including Jean Shrimpton, Jerry Hall, Iman, Christy Turlington, and Naomi Campbell, that document the history of fashion modeling (view table of contents)

Profiles Jean Shrimpton, Suzy Parker, Capucine, and other leading models of a period when the fashion ideal was a sophisticated adult woman, rather than the more childlike figure that became popular in the late 1960s

Profiles popular models Christy Turlington, Linda Evangelista, Kate Moss, Claudia Schiffer, Niki Taylor, Kristen McMenamy, Naomi Campbell, and Cindy Crawford

Profiles thirteen of today's top models, including Christie Brinkley, Iman, and Elle MacPherson