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(More customer reviews)This is the best info out there!
As a working commercial photographer I have worked with many models, both seasoned and beginners as well as agencies, reps and managers. I have dealt with a lot of beginners and often wanted to give them a source for no nonsense info about the day-to-day issues they are likely to encounter. I have also over the years read several modeling guides to see which ones I should recommend but most fell short in some way. Not this one.
What's unique about this book is that it doesn't just cover the NYC fashion world. That's the problem with lots of books by supermodels and celebrity agency owners are their experience is a very narrow and often an outdated one that extremely few others could benefit from. This book deals with fashion and commercial modeling in both large and secondary markets. It clearly explains the differences too.
Another unique thing about this book is how much it deals with the Internet and it's effect on the modeling industry, both the good and bad aspects of it. It lays out in no nonsense terms how both agency and freelance models can befit from the net and the brick & mortar world. Its glossary of terms is the most comprehensive I have seen and includes many "net" terms that until now have never been codified into one printed source.
I think the best thing about it is the frank discussion of all the scams and sorta scams out there, how to spot them and how to tell the quasi legit from legit. (Sometimes that can be hard) That alone is worth the read.
If you are looking to get into the modeling world I would get this book and really read it before you spend a dime on photos, comp cards, web site memberships, open calls, ect.
Don't get me wrong there are several good books out there but for the beginning model this is the best.
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Covers all aspects of the modeling industry, written by an agent and photographer with decades of experience. Describes modeling types you didn't even know existed, what they require, and how to get into them. Mainstream fashion and commercial modeling, alternative modeling types and the burgeoning new field of Internet modeling discussed in detail. Includes a special chapter on child modeling. Different types of agencies, and what to expect from each. Getting an agency (or getting work without one). What is expected of you by clients, casting directors and agencies. and who are all of those people? How go-sees and shoots work, and the paperwork involved. Modeling and the law: agency contracts, copyright and model's rights, including samples of the commonly used forms. A detailed description of many modeling scams, and the myths that surround them. Model safety. Essay that decodes the things said by photographers and agents that don't mean what they say.
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