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Joe Farace's Glamour Photography: The Digital Photographer's Guide to Getting Great Results with Minimal Equipment
by Joe Farace List Price: Our Price: $23.90 You Save: $11.05 (32%) Edition: Big Paperback Dimensions: 8.5 x 11 Availability: Usually ships within 24 hours Synopsis Using minimal equipment and maximizing opportunities, this informative reference demonstrates how to shoot glamour portraits in any available light situation. Working with both professional models as well as amateurs and using no more equipment than the basics, this guide provides instruction for creating easy-to-build modifiers, addressing a modelŐs figure and appearance concerns, harnessing natural light, and adapting to any location or backdrop. Order The Digital Photographer's Guide to Getting Great Results with Minimal Equipment Now! 
Successful Glamour Photography
by John Kelly List Price: $24.95 Our Price: $17.47 You Save: $7.48 (30%) Edition: Big Paperback Dimensions: 8.5 x 11 Availability: Usually ships within 24 hours Synopsis Great book for learning the basics of glamour photography. Covers choosing and care of equipment, choosing models, makeup, props and accessories, outdoor and indoor lighting, location shooting, portfolios, and dealing wth agents. A classic book that got many of todays glamour shooters started. Order Successful Glamour Photography Now! 
Face Forward
by Kevyn Aucion List Price: Our Price: $19.77 You Save: $13.18 (30%) Hardcover: Published 2000 Little Brown & Co ; ISBN: 0316286443; Dimensions (in inches): 12.38 x 9.40 Synopsis Once again Kevyn Aucoin astonishes with his incredible transformations of famous and ordinary people alike. In this new book, he demonstrates how anyone can have a variety of different faces. Working with a whole new cast of famous faces, he turns Celine Dion, Julianne Moore, Sharon Stone, Susan Sarandon and many others into their most beautiful, glamorous, and intriguing selves. For each and every face, he provides step-by-step instructions and illustrations that will make them easy to... About the Author Kevyn Aucoin's faces appear in editorial features, fashion shows, music videos, and advertising campaigns as well as on the covers of virtually every major magazine, and he's be e Ad a guest on many television programs, including Oprah, the Today show, Good Morning America, VH-I's Fashion Television, MTV's House of Style and Entertainment Tonight. His client roster reads like a Who's Who of the entertainment world's elite. Order Making Faces Now! 
Glam Scam: Successfully Avoiding the Casting Couch and Other Talent and Modeling Scams
by Erik Joseph List Price: Our Price: $11.16 You Save: $2.79 (20%) Paperback: Published 1994 Lone Eagle Publishing ; ISBN: 0943728665; Dimensions (in inches): 8.0 x 5.30 The author, Erik Joseph/ejf@doitnow.com, September 30, 1998 I wrote this book because it needed to be done. There are plenty of books that tell how to break into The Biz, but none that warned of the perilous pitfalls -- especially for beginners. Parents need this book too... I've gone undercover to expose frauds and dangerous fakes. I can read them like a book -- and it's all here. Warner Brothers once optioned this book as a tv-movie. The option is currently open. I have also appeared on just about all the tv and radio talk shows. I'm proud to say this book has helped many, though the "picture" is sometimes dark. Good luck, and listen to your instincts as you follow your dreams. The publisher, Lone Eagle Publishing Co, May 16, 1997 Inside The Glam Slam,there are psychological profiles of perpetrators, victims and parents, and shocking true stories of those who have been ripped off in the entertainment industry. The Glam Scam also includes a crash course on who's who in the industry, from Acting Coaches, Business Managers, Casting Directors to Producers and Talent Scouts - what they can and can't do for you! Joseph tells what to look for, and who to call if you suspect a glam slam. Order Glam Scam Now! 
Making Faces
by Kevyn Aucion List Price: Our Price: $16.00 You Save: $4.00 (20%) Paperback: Published 1999 Little Brown & Co ; ISBN: 0316286850; Dimensions (in inches): 9 x 12 Synopsis For more than a decade, Kevyn Aucoin has been the makeup artist of choice for fashion and entertainment royalty. But Kevyn believes that makeup gives everyone the power to transform themselves and try out new personas. His new book, Making Faces, starts with unbeatable tips on the Nbasics of makeup application and technique. Then he shows you how to use these fundamentals in all kinds of interesting and unconventional ways, with step-by-step directions for dozens of different looks. About the Author Kevyn Aucoin's faces appear in editorial features, fashion shows, music videos, and advertising campaigns as well as on the covers of virtually every major magazine, and he's be e Ad a guest on many television programs, including Oprah, the Today show, Good Morning America, VH-I's Fashion Television, MTV's House of Style and Entertainment Tonight. His client roster reads like a Who's Who of the entertainment world's elite Order Making Faces Now! 
Model: The Ugly Business of Beautiful Women
by Michael Gross List Price: Our Price: $5.20 You Save: $1.30 (20%) Availability: This title usually ships within 2-3 days. Mass Market Paperback Warner Bk edition (May 1996) Warner Books; ISBN: 0446603465 ; Dimensions (in inches): 6.71 x 4.12 x 1.2 Reviews Women's Studies Editor's Recommended Book Michael Gross exposes the day-to-day business of beautiful young women, sex and drugs. Through hundreds of in-depth interviews with models, photographers and agents, he develops a flowing narrative history of the modeling industry from its birth to the present day supermodel craze. It's a story of serendipitous careers like that of industry creator Richard Powers, an out-of-work actor who created a niche for himself by providing beautiful people for the newly-developed fields of photography and advertising. Order Model: The Ugly Business of Beautiful Women Now! 
Catwalk: Inside the World of the Supermodels
by Sandra Morris List Price: Our Price: $14.00 You Save: $6.00 (30%) Availability: This title usually ships within 24 hours. Hardcover (April 1996) Universe Pub; ISBN: 0789300567 ; Dimensions (in inches): 11.79 x 9.40 x 0.60 Order Catwalk: Inside the World of the Supermodels Now! Cover Girls and Supermodels 1945-1965 by Jean-Noel Liaut, Robin Buss (Translator) Our Price: $27.50 Availability: This title usually ships within 2-3 days. Paperback (March 1996) Marion Boyars; ISBN: 0714529982 ; Dimensions (in inches): 9.07 x 6.03 x 0.73 Order Cover Girls and Supermodels Now! 
The Wilhelmina Guide to Modeling
by Natasha Esch, Rebecca Gayheart, Christine Walker (Contributor) List Price: Our Price: $11.20 You Save: $2.80 (20%) Availability: This title usually ships within 2-3 days. Paperback 185 pages (June 1996) Fireside; ISBN: 0684814919 ; Dimensions (in inches): 9.21 x 7.39 x 0.50 Synopsis The president of the world-famous Wilhelmina Models, Inc., presents essential information and savvy advice for the thousands eager to break into modeling. Presenting interviews with top models and other features, this guide shows how to find the right agent, handle auditions and contracts, and more. 150 b/w photographs. Order The Wilhelmina Guide to Modeling Now! 
Part-Time Glamour Photography: Full-Time Income
Joe Farace List Price: Our Price: $23.96 You Save: $5.99 (20%) Paperback: Published October 1999 Silver Pixel Press; ISBN: 1883403499; Dimensions (in inches): 8.5 x 11 Synopsis 100 pages in color & 10 b/w illustrations! The ultimate manual to turning glamour photographs into a lucrative salary! Shutterbugs will channel creative talents into a commercially viable and financially rewarding career. Featuring a start-to-finish, proven success ladder and valuable advice from expert glamour photographers, this guide reveals how to find beautiful and talented nude models, take tasteful and sexy photographs using minimum equipment, directly market centerfold photographs worldwide, and cash in on huge profits. With newly honed technical and marketing skills, tap into the tremendous demand existing for high-quality, centerfold photographs. The author, Joe Farace , October 19, 1999 "Part-time glamour photography, full-time income" is a book that is just as much about the business of photography as it is about making images. Sure, you'll find equipment and lighting tips, but you will also find information that many aspiring glamour photographers need to get started. For example, there is an extensive section on finding glamour models. A sample model release, specifically designed for glamour photography, is included along with two other business oriented forms. Readers who are interested in getting started in glamour photography will find sample letters, even sample telephone conversations. Scattered throughout the book are 100 glamour photographs along with captions describing how the images were made. All of the models that appear in the book are the "girl next door" photographed using the kind of lighting techniques and cameras that are available to the average photographer. My goal in writing this book was to provide the beginning glamour photographer with a system: Beginning with finding models, then photographing them, on to selling those images. Order Part-Time Glamour Photography: Full-Time Income Now! 
The Real Bettie Page: The Truth About the Queen of the Pinups
by Richard Foster List Price: Our Price: $15.37 You Save: $6.58 (30%) Hardcover - 240 pages (November 1997) Birch Lane Press - ISBN: 1559724323 - Dimensions (in inches): 9.29 x 6.29 x 1 Synopsis Many people know Playboy centerfold Bettie Page as America's greatest pin-up girl of the 1950s. At the height of her popularity, Bettie disappeared--some feared she had been killed by the mob, while others said she became a born-again Christian and was ashamed of her infamous bondage modeling. Here is the definitive, unauthorized biography of the Queen of Curves, revealing her struggles for fame and love and her descent into violent obsession and madness. Order The Real Bettie Page Now! 
The Art of Haute Couture
by Victor Skrebneski (Photographer), Laura Jacobs List Price: Our Price: $52.50 You Save: $22.50 (30%) Availability: This title usually ships within 2-3 days. Hardcover (November 1995) Abbeville Press, Inc.; ISBN: 0789200228 ; Dimensions (in inches): 13.36 x 10.02 x 1 Synopsis A master fashion photographer focuses his lens on the elements--line, texture, drape, sweep, ornament--that the masters such as Chanel, Givenchy and Saint Laurent use to transform fashion into couture. With an illuminating text by Jacobs and quotes from the couturiers, The Art of Haute Couture is a must for fashion lovers everywhere. 150 illustrations, most in color. Order The Art of Haute Couture Now! 
About Glamour
by Len Prince, Dominick Dunne (Introduction) List Price: Our Price: $28.00 You Save: $12.00 (30%) Availability: This title usually ships within 24 hours. Hardcover 160 pages (November 1997) Simon & Schuster; ISBN: 0684836238 ; Dimensions (in inches): 14.43 x 11.42 x 0.77 Synopsis Richly hypnotic photos by a reigning master of celebrity photojournalism, this book provides a retro look at today's hot stars evoking the elegant style of Hollywood's Golden Age. The brilliant eye of Len Prince has captured familiar faces--from Drew Barrymore to Sarah Jessica Parker--in unfamiliar poses, and the resulting portraits are as surprising as they are mesmerizing. 90 full-page photos. Order About Glamour Now! 
New Glamour (Pro-Lighting Series)
by Alex Larg, Jane Wood List Price: Our Price: $28.00 You Save: $7.00 (20%) Availability: This title usually ships within 24 hours. Paperback 160 pages (February 1998) Amphoto; ISBN: 288046322X ; Dimensions (in inches): 10.43 x 7.57 x 0.54 Synopsis Whether the subject is female, male, or both, glamour photography is only as good as the lighting set up that establishes its mood. The superb examples in this volume show the best lighting effects in the field, and feature detailed diagrams which show just how such glamorous results are achieved. 90 illustrations, 40 in color. Order New Glamour (Pro-Lighting Series) Now! |