The Art of Beauty: Model and Celebrity Links and Acknowledgements An Annotated List (revised 03/24/01)

Below you will find links to some of the very best picture sites on the Web, sites featuring fashion models, supermodels, celebrities, and other beautiful women. Also listed are sources of information on scanning and digital-image editing. Each site listed is fully described, and all meet two important criteria. First, they are free and, like The Art of Beauty, require no memberships, passwords, or fees of any kind. Second, they are, in my opinion, of exceptional quality and offer you something unique. I do not claim the list to be comprehensive, nor do I intend it to rank sites. I'm sure there are many equally worthy ones out there that I am unable to list or have not found. Also, since I am unable to verify these links as often as I'd like, I encourage visitors or webmasters to alert me to any broken links or significant changes in the content or location of sites listed.

Large Permanent Archives and Special Resources

The Largest Archive: Usenet Newsgroups

Smaller Archives and Rotating Collections (similar to this site)

Individual Model Galleries and Tribute Pages

Other Picture Sites of Note

Model and Celebrity Link Pages

Modeling Career Information

Scanning and Editing Digital Images

Miscellaneous Cool Sites

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Acknowledgements and Copyright Information

D-Net: Patrick Demarchelier

Beautifully designed by webmaster Tim Trompeter and the world-famous photographer himself, Patrick Demarchelier's own web archive offers the most generous sampling of a famous photographer's work I've seen on an "official" site. Preferring visual design elements over text, it contains dozens of galleries and hundreds of images covering all aspects of this artist's work. Though the images themselves are smaller than those found on most fashion scanner's sites, they are as large as any I've seen on a photographer's own site. Apart from the debt I personally owe Mr. Demarchelier for his great work, which has been a substantial source for my own scans, we should all thank him for sharing it so freely with us.

The Fashion Directory

Good News! The Fashion Index still deserves its reputation as one of the premier fashion sites on the World Wide Web. Indeed, it is one of the two or three oldest and most influential high-quality image galleries in the Internet's brief history. Not only has it had an enormous impact on the Web's fashion culture, but it is among those sites that have perhaps even affected the fashion industry itself. Over the past five years, the fashion industry has reached a level of public visibility it has never known before. Part of its burgeoning popularity derives from new electronic media like cable and satellite TV. However, Websites like The Fashion Index have played an enormous role in raising the general public's awareness of designers, photographers, publishers, and, of course, fashion models. You tell me, Elle, this is a bad thing?

Fashion Model Index

Dave's site is hands-down the most useful resource on the Internet for information about specific models. It includes three message boards -- Fashion Model Discussion, Fashion Magazine Discussion, and Fashion Model ID. The latter is the single best source available for identifying a particular model. If you can provide a picture of her or even a good enough description, the people here can probably help you put a name to her face. The FMI also houses a database of biographical and professional data on almost 200 models. If all that weren't enough, the site includes a CGI script which indexes all of Firstview's runway photos (see above for more info on Firstview) by model's name, allowing users to instantly locate and access all the runway shots of their favorite model from Firstview's collection (an approach not available at Firstview itself). If you are really interested in fashion models, then you must have this site in your bookmark file. It is indispensible

SUPERMODELS.NL

Taking over where PauzeWeb's Supermodellen left, Supermodels.nl is both a links page and an image archive. It is without doubt one of the premier fashion sites on the Internet. Its link index lists only the finest fashion sites and model galleries on the Web and provides full and useful descriptions of each. Its image galleries, which are rotated regularly are equally outstanding. It is a first-class enterprise and an invaluable resource.

Supermodels.it

This site is pretty much a copy of Supermodels.nl (see above) in Italian.

Firstview

Designed as a professional resource for the fashion media and industry, Firstview creates and maintains a comprehensive archive of runway photos from important fashion shows. Indexed by clothing designer, this archive offers a fairly complete view of each designer's current collections as well as those of several past seasons. The available archive spans as many as three years, and all but photos from the current season are available to the general public for free. All the major design houses (and as a result virtually all popular runway models) are represented in this enormous archive containing thousands of pictures.

The Look On-Line: A New York Fashion Industry Ezine

The Look On-Line is one of the oldest fashion industry sites on the Internet. It offers members constantly updated insider information, reports, and articles on the business end of the fashion world. For occasional visitors like me, it also provides a generous free area which contains similar if more general information. Among other things, it houses several interesting image archives and streaming videos of collections and runway shows like Victoria's Secrets, WonderBra, and Frederick's of Hollywood.

Russian Fashion Models: The New Generation and Fashion Victim's New Models

This suite of conected Web sites (and there are more than I've listed here) is more a "Webzine" than an image archive though it contains dozens of pictures, including a number of candid shots of models taken by webmaster Fashion Victim himself. While perhaps not organized as clearly as they might be, the sites contain a massive amount of information on emerging models. The main focus is on Russian and Eastern Bloc models, including established veterans like Tatiana Zavialova and Natalia Semanova, rising stars like Olga Kurylenco and Diana Kovalchuk, hot newcomers ala Maria Nevskaya and Christina Semenovskaya, as well as a gaggle of barely known beauties who seem destined for much wider exposure. Features include several streaming videos, articles and commentary on the international modeling scene, reviews of several of the modeling contests sponsored by Elite Models, a discussion forum, dozens of exclusive photographs, and the more traditional scans of published images. Be advised, however, that for the most part images are not segregated into galleries but are presented in conjunction with text and other graphic elements just as they would be in a print magazine. The images themselves, while of quite good quality, are not as large as those typically found in gallery sites, but Fvictim makes up for that with quantity, so be prepared for a couple of pages to load over a MB of image files.

The Realms of Magic

Now apparently inactive, this was one of the first high-quality free model and celebrity archives. It paved the way for many that followed.

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The Largest Archive: Usenet Newsgroups

Usenet Newsgroup: alt.binaries.pictures.supermodels

While I could have made this entry a hyperlink, I have chosen not to because I do not want to encourage people to access the Usenet with multi-purpose clients like Netscape or Outlook Express. To access the newsgroups effectively and with consideration for others, you need to learn a little about the Usenet and you need to get a real newsreader. Nevertheless, if you are a serious picture collector you should definitely do both now! This vast and valuable resource is the most underused, misunderstood, and endangered segment of the Internet. It is also the single best source for amassing a collection of pictures. Threatened by a sea of SPAM, the Usenet needs people like you to contribute to its open exchange of free pictures. Your support of the Usenet will be repayed a hundred fold.

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ABSOLUT MODELS

Formerly known as NikScan Fashion Models, Absolut features over 30 models and offers dozens of beautiful scans with an emphasis on artistic photography. The galleries include both well-known and lesser-known fashion models and are updated about every two weeks. Nikscans are well known among that fashion-model devotees on the Internet because their creator has been consistently producing and distributing high-quality images for quite some time.

Balan's Models

This site offers a small but high-quality archive. It currently has galleries devoted to four models: Aurelie, Georgina Grenville, Sarah Thomas, and Korina Longin. The pics include some classic editorial shots from 3-6 years ago as well as contemporary material.

Bart 4

One of the outstanding archives on the Web, Bart4's site currently has six galleries offering about 40 original scans. Bart4 has a knack for ferreting out pictures no one else seems to have, and he rotates his collection frequently, so you should check on it often.

Bashful Monkey's Sexy Celebrities

Bashful's site is one of the few I will list here that has a members-only section. However, he always offers 20 or 30 really outstanding celebrity and model scans for free. I don't know what lies beyond the membership curtain, but if it's like what's in the free section it's probably worth the money. Last I knew, Bashful offered the full complement of media -- scans, vidcaps, and video clips -- and all are of the highest quality and many (in both sections) feature nudity.

Beautiful Girls

Although it's still there, Beautiful girls has apparently become inactive and hasn't been updated in a year or so. That's too bad because its creator, brett, is one of the two or three best scanners I've ever encountered.

CheebaScan Image of Beauty

Cheeba's site boasts that he's "Norway's premier image artist," and I have no reason to dispute him. Offering a rotating collection of outstanding scans, the Image of Beauty (classy title, don't you think?) focuses on both female celebrities as well as models, and it includes, along with many familiar faces, a number of international stars not often seen on this side of the Atlantic.

Deftone -- In process of moving to new address

This site employs a simple title to describe a simple idea. Similar to The Art of Beauty it houses images its owner has chosen to scan for no other reaon than that he likes them. Fortunately for us, new scanner Deftone is not only very good at what he does, but he likes the kind of pictures we do, that is, if you like sexy pictures of fashion models and female celebrities.

Downdude's Scans

As its name implies, this gallery features the work of one of the Net's best imaging artists. In addition to scans of fashion models and female celebrities, the site features a number of vidcaps as well.

EGO - Eliassons Gallery Online

Fashion aficionado Holger's site currently houses large galleries devoted to Elle McPherson, Claudia Schiffer, Heidi Klum, and others as well as links and other related features. Its owner is not himself a scanner, but he's collected some good images from around the net. It's worth a visit.

Fashion in Vogue

Another splashy Flash-driven site which features four or five regularly updated image galleries devoted to particular models, fashion editorials, or advertising campaigns.

Fashist

This unique site offers visitors both pictures and topical information related to the fashion industry and fashion modeling. Updated several times a week, Fashist maintains a calendar with links to at least one item of interest on each day listed. These include local and remote image galleries, articles on designers and models, and webmaster HSB's own inimitable take on various issues. HSB is truly an original, and I know only four or five other scanners who can match his skill.

French Box

This very large archive features high-quality scans of both celebrities and models, many of themfrom France.

Graf & Co.

Focusing on Latin models, this attractive site offers about 2 dozen excellent scans of Hispanic models and celebrities. These include Esther Canadas, Astrid Munoz, Celia Former, Estefania Luyck, Ana Alvarez, Almudena Fernandez, and several others. It also features a section of PhotoShop tips.

The Honte's Just Great Celebrity Women Pictures

Yet another fine Skandanavian site, this one now has three galleries: one of Swedish celebrities, one of international (including American) celebrities, and one devtoted to the work a guest imaging artist. Except for those in the guest gallery, webmaster Honte scans or captures all the images himself, and the site offers a lot of rare and unusual high-quality material, including numerous vidcaps from Swedish movies and TV. Although the galleries house only 48 pictures at a time, they are constantly updated, and visitors may request older images by email.

IoFM

I hope I've got the name right for this fine new site. Anyway, it offers several galleries of quality scans and lots of models not often seen elsewhere. These include Melanie Thierry, Lisa Ratliffe, Christine Duran, Malgosia, and many other very worthy subjects.

Light Duty's Home

Master scanner, Light Duty, is back online and waiting to take his visitors on a trip down what he likes to call the long slim line. In the early stages of development, his site offers both conventional image galleries as well as his own unique slideshow format. As each slide is being displayed, LD's script is preloading the next one in the list, so the slideshow starts quickly and never bogs down. LD is one of the two or three best scanners I know, and much of my own approach to image editing reflects his influence. If you want to see how it should be done, check out his work.

Maymun.com

This fairly large archive of quality scans of familiar models and celebrities is perhaps most noteworthy because it is available in both Turkish and English versions. Be advised, however, the image links do not work in Netscape, only Internet Explorer.

Modelos Brasileiras e Internacionais

This easy to use site offers high-quality scans of about 20 models, most of whom are hispanic. These include Renata Maciel, Fernanda Tavares, Gisele Bundchen, Adriana Lima, and Ana Claudia. It also has a rotating featured model section.

Modelos Argentinas Desnudas - Nude Argentine Models

Just as its title promises, this Latin site features hundreds of pictures of nude Central and South American models (not just Argentinians), including the big names like Ines Rivero, Caroline Ribeiro, and Ana Beatrice Barros as well as dozens relative unknowns. I'm for it.

ThE PlaCe

This new gallery specializes in images of Russian models and celebrities though it also has a large collection of international celebrities as well. Located in Russia, the site provides both English or Russian-language versions (English version is linked here). Its scans are high-quality, and its subject a nice change of pace and perhaps overdue given the increasing number of extraordinarily beautiful Russian athletes, media stars, and models gaining worldwide attention.

Point of View

Although explicitly designed to showcase the works of particular photographers, this site houses one of the finest collections of model scans you'll find. Designed and maintained by master-scanner nURv, the galleries include the webmaster's own scans as well as those of other well-known scanners. Like its subject matter, the site has a distinctive artistic design, but its thumbnail indexes don't always behave in a consistent manner, and the site in general is perhaps not as well behaved as it might be (hint: the links for navigating the site are at the top of the page and will illuminate as you move your mouse over them). Compared to the wealth of beautiful images, these are minor complaints about this ambitous, expanding work in progress.

Rolling Thunder

Here you'll find the headquarters of the dreaded MODA organization, a highly exclusive cabal of scanners who assiduously maintain the alchemical secrets of the dying art of reproducing magazine photos in digital form. Far too many of today's self-appointed "imaging artists" adopt an overbearing style that relies on superficial tricks like blowing out contrast and blurring skin tones. Fortunately, this pretentious approach is mostly confined to celebrity and centerfold scanners. MODA scanners, led by their dark lord, Alwyn, exemplify the much more rigorous and difficult tradition of the fashion scanners of old -- accuracy. Watch and learn. (And visit the lair of the Dark Lord himself at your own risk)

Seven Supermodels

This site describes itself as being devoted to seven supermodels; however, I don't know why because it features images of many more than that. Obviously, this is not a problem. Indeed, the site has several galleries of good scans and is yet another fine general model archive.

The Squid -- Nude Supermodels

Squid's site offers several galleries of high-quality scans of fashion models in the nude. Its archives are divided into smaller runway shots and large format magazine scans. Most of the scans -- which have apparently been collected from a number of other sites -- are available elsewhere, but you can find a lot of nudes clustered here in one place if you're in a hurry.

Supermodels: The Norwegians

This site features several small "folios" of Norwegian models photographed by Elle photographer, Ed Cortez. Though there's not very many pictures, the scans are good, and the models are newcomers who haven't yet gained wide exposure around the world.

Supermodel Dossier

This interesting site is packed with images and, especially, information about particular models and modeling. Among other things, it features a frequently updated newsletter of fashion related info and industry gossip, an index of modeling agencies, biographical sketches of numerous models, and dozens of very high-quality scans. However, while some might disagree, I find its design a bit confusing, particularly in the gallery section. However, it is apparently under construction and seems well on its way to becoming an indispensible resource. It was last updated in the middle of August, so we'll hope that its owner finds the time to fulfill the great promise of this worthy project.

Ubermodels

This medium-sized archive highlights the international diversity of the modeling world. Each of its eight galleries focuses on a model from a different country. Currently featured models include Valeria Mazza of Argentina, Harumi Inoue of Japan, Veronica Webb of the US, Leilani Bishop of the UK, and Shiraz Tal of Israel.

Visages: Models and Celebrities

This small but growing archive displays some excellent scans of some very pretty women. The site highlights a different model every month and also currently has four permanent galleries, indexed by model's name, featuring about 10 images each of Jenny Brunt, Georgina Grenville, Kylie Bax, and Sarah O'Hare, all top fashion models. Among the planned new galleries are two for celebrities Gillian Anderson and Sharon Stone and several for other top fashion models.

X-Scans

This moderate-sized archive features scans of top fashion models. Its simple organization simply lists images in the order they were added to the site. No spinning logos or flashing windows -- just pictures of pretty women. Most of the images appear to be scanned from news-print sources and are probably not available anywhere else.

Zothike's Page

Zothike's long-running site, also among the best free model galleries on the Web, maintains a permanent collection of scans which just keeps growing to enormous proportions and now numbers about 1500 images. The site features many models not often seen elsewhere and also now offers an excellent links page.

Adriana Giotta Official Site

Unlike a lot of "official" sites, this one offers quite a few pictures, and many of them are much larger than those found in similar archives. This beautiful Italian model has gotten little exposure on the net so far, and this handsome site is a welcome resource.

Alessandra Ambrosio - Ana Beatriz Barros

This site has a pretty straightforward purpose -- to collect and display as many good scans as possible of these two sultry Brazilian models. It looks like a damned good idea to me.

Almudena Fernandez Fan Site

This fine tribute contains a brief biographical sketch and about 50 images of the beautiful Spanish brunette, Almudena. Its design is clean and simple, and the scans are excellent. What more could you want?

bleuFunk's Angela Lindvall

Master scanner BleuFunk maintains an archive devoted to another of my favorite models. Organized by source, the galleries contain about 60 pictures. Unlike many sites which use frames, this one actually employs them to advantage.

Anouck LePere

This Moda-affiliated site houses a modest collection of outstanding scans of Belgian newcomer, Anouk.

Voila! - Audrey Marnay

Audrey Marnay deserves a tribute site, and this one does have a lot of information about Audrey as well as a few dozen pretty good images. However, it also has some problems. It has what appear to be thumbnail-link pages that actually load full-size images. I've yet to figure out the point of linking images to themselves. I don't mean to single this site out for criticism because a number of sites do the same thing. Usually I won't list them here, but as I said Audrey fans will be thankful that it's there regardless.

bleuFunk's Aurelie

Similar in design, content, and the high quality of its images to his Angela Lindvall site, this BleuFunk tribute focuses on yet another of my most favorite models: Aurelie Claudel.

Bridget Hall

This relatively new and quickly-growing site already offers an impressive collection of images of one of the most popular models around. The scans are superb, the layout user-friendly, and the subject more than worthy of this professional-quality tribute.

Bridget Hall Home Page

This appropriate homage to the beguiling Bridget offers over 100 scans in two galleries: one for color and one for b/w images.

Carla Bruni

This site offers a huge collection of high-quality images of this beautiful Italian model. However, be prepared to wait while its 100+ thumbnails all load on the opening page (many of them twice).

The Carmen Kass Collection

Operated by MODA scanner Alwyn, this tribute site offers a few dozen professional-quality scans of one of the fastest rising stars in the modeling world

The Carmen Kass Page

The girl with the most intimidating body in the modeling world (save maybe Naomi Campbell) deserves at least two more sites, and this one is a worthy entry. In addition to dozens of high-quality scans, it offers video and sound clips and loads of information on this blonde Amazonian beauty.

Carolyn Murphy

This site archives a fairly large collection of outstanding scans of one of the busiest and most versatile models in the industry.

Model Square (Chandra North)

Though future developments (including a planned Kristen McMenamy gallery) may make this a general archive, it currently functions as a Chandra tribute -- but what a tribute. With well over 100 superb images of the busty Ms. North, it offers a comprehensive look at another model in the upper echelons of her profession

Cristina Kruse: A Model's Delight

Sage's Michelle Behennah site (see below) has earned a reputation as one of the finest celebrity tributes on the Internet (even Ms. Behennah herself agrees), and his new site is headed in the same direction. For either information about or pictures of rising model Cristina, you'll find this an outstanding resource.

Christy Turlington Gallery

Among the dozens of fine tributes to this most elegant model, this is one of the very best.

Miss Christy Turlington

This site offers an enormous archive of pictures of the one and only Christy that span the breadth of her fabulously successful career.

Sersem's Cindy Crawford Page 1500+

No doubt the biggest Cindy archive on the Web and likely one of the largest tribute galleries period, Sersem's site is sure to have the CC pics you're looking for or else you just imagined them. Since the images have been collected from around the net, the quality varies, but most are good to excellent.

Cindyland

This well-designed site has everything a Cindy fan could ask for: dozens of superb scans, audio clips, videos, and even a detailed and interesting biography of the ultra supermodel.

Ant's Claudia Schiffer Fan Page

Ant's archive contains 6 galleries, each with about 25 pics of Claudia, mostly swimuit and lingerie shots. The galleries are linked together sequentially, making it easy to move between consecutive numbers but difficult to jump out of the order. Because the images are apparently gathered from around the Internet, their size and quality varies, but most are very good. Fans of this German ultra-supermodel will find this site a good place to start their quest for her image.

Unofficial Ehrinn Cummings Page

The beautiful Canadian Ms. Cummings is quickly developing a high profile among the general public. This tribute to her provides fans with something like 100 quality images. The site could be better organized. The large number of images are divided into only two thumbnail galleries (although the thumbs loaded extremely quickly for me), and they're not organized in any way. Also, the gallery pages offer no links back to the front page. On the other hand, the site is extremely simple and straightforward (that's a good thing), and one could argue that once you enter the galleries you've got little need for a way out.

Elle McPherson Daily Gallery

Another site that has gone unlisted here too long, this oustanding tribute offers a haven for fans of the statuesque Aussie supermodel. Among its many features, it houses an enormous rotating collection of outstanding scans.

The Unofficial Esther Canadas Site

This beautifully designed site features dozens and maybe hundreds of high-quality scans of the Spanish supermodel, many by Webmaster Juan and the rest donated by contributors. It also provides biographical information and career details.

Fernanda Tavares

A nice, large archive devoted to the the "other" beautiful superstar Brazilian model.

Gisele Bundchen Platinum

This site is perhaps most notable for its layout -- which is a good news/bad news deal. It has an interesting flash interface with auto-scrolling thumbnails that speed up and slow down as you move your mouse towards the beginning and end of the list. Unfortunately, the links don't load properly in Netscape, and the whole thing seems a little too "flashy" if you ask me. It has about 30 or so good scans and one rather dull runway video.

Gisele Bundchen Sensual Gallery

This brand new site is starting off pretty small, but it promises to add a new image of Gisele each day and to soon include news and information about the Brazilian superstar model, video clips, and galleries devoted to other models as well. The scans are high-quality and load in a java-script window.

Heather Payne: A Collection

This homage to Heather -- the All-American model who for some reason shows up in lots of Italian fashion mags -- offers a huge gallery of photos. The scans are mostly good, but their file size tends to be a little large

Monte's Ines Sastre

An earnest shrine to the beautiful hispanic charmer.

Ines Sastre Picture Gallery

An even more extensive archive devoted to the lovely Ines.

The New Improved and More Recently Updated Ingrid Seynhaeve Fan Page

This site claims to be the the first devoted to the Swedish model. If that's true, it provides a long overdue service. Since I haven't seen too many ugly pictures of Ingrid, the site's title is a bit redundant, but you will find lots of the beautiful kind here.

James King

For some reason, it's relatively uncommon to find women operating fashion-model archives, but ("webmistress?") Jolie's new tribute to emerging supermodel James King suggests that more should take the plunge. Like most good sites of its type, this one offers both images of and information about Ms. King, a subject too long overlooked. The images have been collected from various sources, and though the gallery section is presently modest (a little over 50 pics) it should continue to expand. Oh yeah, the picture on the index page is an image map that links to the various sections. It took me awhile to figure that out, but then you're probably not as dense as I am.

Jodiephile's Tribute to Jodie Kidd

The main feature of this tribute is its dozens of pictures of the distinctive British blonde.

Markee's Josie Maran Fan Site

This site doesn't have as many high-quality images as most listed here, but its subject -- the captivating Josie Maran -- makes up for that. I can tell you from personal experience that there aren't near enough good pictures of Josie to scan. She (and I) deserve better. Still, the site has a lot of images of her and includes a nice links section.

Extreme Beauty -- Kate Moss

Created and maintained by master scanner Deckard, this well laid-out site holds several dozen superb images of this veteran fashion model, who at only 26 is doubtless the reigning queen of her idiom. Its continuously updated galleries are organized by source (advertisements, editorials, etc.), and the site also offers a weekly feature and a guest-model gallery in addition to lots of biographical and topical information about Ms. Moss.

Faces Cafe

This is another site I should have included here long ago. Similar to the one listed above, it offers an idexed archive of beautiful scans of Kate as well as much information about her. Cindy Crawford is a household name, Christy Turlington is the epitome of elegant beauty, and Linda Evangelista is considered queen of the supermodels by much of the hard-core fashion set. But in years to come, Kate's "waif" image will probably be remembered as the look of the nineties, and deservedly so.

Official Site of Johanna, Swedish Model

Sixteen year-old aspiring model Johanna maintains this site herself, and in some ways it resembles some I have listed in the "Other Picture Sites" category below. So far as I know, Johanna is not yet a "published" model. Her picture gallery is essentially a promotional "card," and all the photos are credited to the same photographer -- no "tear-sheet" stuff. I list her site here because the images are obviously professional, they are all clearly within the genre of fashion photography, and Johanna herself is quite lovely and -- in my very, very humble opinion -- may very well have what it takes to get work in the high-fashion industry. On the downside, the gallery contains only a few, relatively small pictures.

Laetitia Casta's Secret Garden

If you have read through my Bachelor's Beauty Tips for Women, you know that I am not particularly attracted to voluptuous, large-breasted women with "hourglass" figures. However, I make exceptions.

Beautiful Supermodels Online -- Laetitia Casta Galleries

This site uses somewhat oddly generic gallery names -- like "dress" and "pretty" -- which are perhaps not the best navigational aids I've seen. But it really doesn't matter which gallery links you choose because all of them lead to high-quality scans of Laetitia Casta -- lots and lots of scans of Laetitia Casta.

The Linda Evangelista Chateau

Long the darling of the hardest-core fashion aficionados, Ms. Evangelista has been turnng heads for several years now. This extraordinary award-winning site pays an appropriate tribute to her impressive career with dozens of thumbnail galleries featuring over 1000 quality images of the queen of the runways scanned by its webmaster and collected from around the Web. The site also offers a wealth of information about Ms. E as well as merchandise offers and much more.

Lindsey Hartley Dot Com

While not the biggest or best image archive in the list, this site is interesting because its content is provided by the model herself. Still in high school, teen model Ms. Hartley has already amassed an impressive portfolio, some of which she shares in a small gallery with visitors to her site. The site - designed and managed by Steve Hunt -- also features a discussion forum in which Lindsey is a regular contributor, a brief biography, an itenary and reports on her recent excursions, and some links to other sites devoted to the lovely young blonde.

Lonneke Engel

This geocities site displays dozens of images of the extremely young, hauntingly exotic, and breathtakingly beautiful Dutch model. It is also a doorway into the Supermodels Online Web ring, which links a number of similarly fine sites.

Magdalena Wrobel Palace

An outstanding tribute to this lesser-known but indisputably lovely fashion model -- the site holds dozens of excellent scans of Magdalena in seven image galleries, including many rarely-seen photos.

Angie's Place (Magdalena Wrobel)

Lovely Angie offers a number of interesting features on her site, many of which -- such as her ardent tribute to singer, Sara McLachlan -- are music related. But of most interest to us is the expanding section devoted to Polish model Magdelena Wrobel that includes biographical info and about 50 high-quality images, certainly the most comprehensive archive available.

The Malia Jones Fansite

It was past time for this super hot swimsuit model (who's received some recent exposure here on AOB) to get her own tribute site, but this one fills the bill nicely. It contains loads of pictures and information about this world-class professional surfer and emerging supermodel from the island paradise of Hawaii.

Meghan Douglas

This fine tribute offers yet another example of the superb work being done on public-domain Websites.

The Michelle Behennah Global Internet Venue

This extensive site gets high marks for quantity, quality, and organization, not to mention the originality of its title. In fact, webmaster Sage's outstanding work drew the attention of none other than Michelle herself, who has since made it her "official" site on the World Wide Web.

Milla Jovovitch

Another comprehensive tribute, this site traces the varied career of the beautiful model. It contains a huge amount of information, including images, audio and video clips, and much more.

The Very Unofficial Nina Brosh Website

Members of the cult of Israeli fashion model Nina will appreciate the fine collection of images housed in this large archive.

Angel Rebecca (Romijn)

This site houses a large collection of images of one of the most popular swimsuit models around. On the other hand, it does about everything conceivable to slow loading time. Burdened with scripts, complicated backgrounds, and full-sized images doubling as thumnails (the webmaster tells me he'll put up real thumbs soon), it seems to value form over function. The images themselves have been collected from around the web, and their size and quality varies, but there's plenty of good ones, so if you're a fan of RR you'll need to add it to your bookmarks for sure.

Gorgeous Rebecca Romijn

This one is a must for serious Rebecca fans. It features a large, frequently-updated image archive, including many pics I haven't seen anywhere else, and all the images are of exceptional quality.

Renee Simonsen

This tribute focuses on the Danish supermodel who ruled the 80s and includes dozens of rare, high-quality scans.

Sara Spraker, Fashion Model

Though not nearly so well known or widely exposed as most of the other models listed in this section, Ms. Spraker is indeed an enchanting beauty. The anonymous webmaster of this site has obviously spent a great deal of time and effort collecting enough images of Sara to establish a full-blown tribute gallery. Its high-quality images are varied, its design well-organized, and its overall content impressively comprehensive. In addition to a couple dozen images, the site offers a great deal of information about this young, rising model.

bleuFunk's Shalom

bleufunk's tribute to Shalom Harlow is very much like his sites devoted to Aurelie Claudel and Angela Lindvall (see above) -- excellent. And what good taste he has in models!

Sophie Marceau

This celebrity tribute provides a broad resource for fans of the lovely French actress. It includes pictures, video clips, vidcaps, an illustrated filmography, and lots of biographical information.

Suzanne Lanza Club

This Yahoo-based "club" is devoted to Suzanne Lanza, a popular model in the early 90s who did a lot of editorial and catalogue work, particularly for Victoria's Secrets. In addition to a thriving message board, a chat room, and several other informational features, the group's members maintain two "briefcases" with substantial archives of images (briefcase.yahoo.com/slanzafan and briefcase.yahoo.com/slanzaclub). They are to be commended for collecting so many pictures of a model who worked long before scanners were affordable and commonplace. I know they would greatly appreciate anyone who can direct them to sources of additonal images.

Tanga

Tanga is one of my favorite models, and this welcome site contains dozens of pictures of Ms. Moreau, all divided into handy categories.

Tatiana Zavialova's Ultimate Archive

Numerous constantly-updated galleries with dozens of images of beautiful Russian model Tatiana will make this a frequent stopover for those who like exotic women.

Tatiana Zavialova's Online Portfolio

Although it has disappeared, this well-designed site was apparently owned by the beautiful Russian supermodel herself. Hey, Tatiana, if you get a new site, let us know . . . ok?

Trish Goff

Although a bit out of date, this site houses a very large collection of images of this waifish combination of cuteness and sexuality.

I Love Tyra: Tyra Banks in All Her Glory

Tyra Banks, world famous lingerie model, receives suitable tribute here. In addition to 21 galleries of scans accumulated from around the 'Net, the site provides biographical and general info on the lovely Ms. Banks.

La Pagina Web De Valeria Mazza (English Version)

Incorporating numerous unique design elements, this site offers a wealth of information about this beautiful, blonde Argentine model. Its nine image galleries prove why such attention is justified.

Yamila Diaz-Rahi

I apologise for shortening the actual title of this site, but it could be confusing here. Anyway, Yamila certainly deserves a site of her own, and this one claims to be the first. Its growing image collection has been collected from around the Web (a few from here), and most are of good quality.

Yasmin LeBon: The Digital Resource

This large archive offers a loving tribute to the supermodel with perhaps the most staying power. It traces her long and successful career in images, text, and video.

Angylina's Modeling Page

Angylina is a Persian, born in Iran, raised in Italy, transplanted to California, and presently settled in Las Vegas. Since moving to the U.S, she's found some success as a model, doing mostly swimwear for catalogues. Listed above is her own Web site where she offers information about herself, extreme hospitality, and some very sexy pictures. Though shorter and much more curvacious than your typical model, she will surely remain in great demand for swimsuit and lingerie shoots. If you like exotic brunettes, especially very friendly ones, you should check this out.

The Celebrity Consortium

This portal site, which itself offers links and other features, connects to the sites of six imaging artists, all of whom specialize in celebrity scans, vidcaps, and videos. Once operating under the Bashful Monkey umbrella, the consortium members now require users to purchase memberships for unlimited access to their sites; however, each provides at least 5Mb of material freely available to the public.

Classy Legs, Classy Legs

As its name suggests, the focus of this large archive is leg shots -- lots of them. The quality of the scans varies, and there's no attempt to group the galleries in any meaningful way. They are just added by date, and each one will contain a random assortment of catalogue, fashion model, amateur, and a variety of other type pictures. Still, leg lovers will find plenty here to keep themselves occupied.

Doug Stickney's Silver Screen Siren Website

While its focus differs somewhat from most of the aforementioned sites, this one is definitely worth a visit. It houses an impressive image archive of female screen stars from the 1920s through the 50s. Whether of cultural icons like Elizabeth Taylor and Vivien Leigh or of mostly forgotten but unique beauties like Louise Rainer and Ella Raines, the images are nearly all high quality, and many are quite rare. Without doubt, this site is yet another example of an aficionado enriching all of us by freely sharing his passion on the Internet.

Heart of Asia

Webmaster Zak has put together a large selection of Asian-produced scans of Japanese and other Asian models. The pictures represent the unique style of Japanese erotic photgraphy, which seems both highly professional yet spontaneous and candid all at once. The images are rather soft for this genre with only a few bikini and lingerie shots and very few nudes, but it is well worth visiting.

Innocence Lost

This site features the work of Tim Phillips (see below) and a number of other photographers and artists. It has both free and members' galleries and offers an eclectic sampling of high-quality images that share a central theme. It focuses on the various manifestations of human sexuality and uses the iconography of fetishes and of dominant and submissive role playing as a basis for exploring contemporary behavior. In short, it's a cool site.

Tim Phillips Fine Art Photography

I apologise to Tim for letting his link stay down for so long. Tim didn't go anywhere. His site is still right where it was, still offering a nice collection of his own artistic and erotic photography. If you're looking for some unknown but attactive models and a fresh perspective on the sensual, this would be a good place to check out.

A Great Site.com

This new links page is setting out to provide a detailed, annotated list of high-quality, provocative celebrity galleries. It has already amassed an impressive database which is easily accessible thanks to its simple yet professional design. It is also connected to the invaluable Internet Imaging Artists Index (see below for details.

Ban Modeling

No, this site doesn't blame models for causing anorexia, it houses a large link index of model galleries compiled by its webmaster Ban. Currently, Ban only lists individual tributes, but I suspect he will be expanding his index to include more generic archives. If I understood him correctly, he is also about to open his own enormous gallery of model images. Check the site for updates

Celebhoo: Celebrity Search Engine

As you might guess, this new service is fashioned to resemble Yahoo's venerable format except that it specializes in celebrity web sites. Like Yahoo, it offers both a categorized, hierarchical index of sites and a search window. Quite useful now, this celeb index will grow more and more valuable as its database of sites expands.

Costanza's Full Body Shots

Lots and lots of links to scanners' sites, celeb sites, model sites, and more.

DAIHOO - DAI's Celebrity Links and Search Engine

DAI's new searchable links page provides a useful adjunct to his outstanding message and image board (see above). If you're looking for high-quality celebrity vid-cappers, this would be a place to start.

Desperado's Megalinks

Operating under the Bashful monkey umbrella, Desperado's site is one of the premier celebrity-site link indexes available. Desperado briefly describes each site and categorizes the links based whether the sites are free image galleries, free movie archives, or adult check sites, and he includes a separate list of individual tribute sites. If you're looking for great celeb sites, this is an excellent place to start.

Enmente.com

This site appears to be a Spanish-language knock off of the premier links index, Supermodels.nl (see above). If you're going to copy someone, it might as well be the best.

Fashion Model Resource

Still under construction, this site is already one of the most comprehensive sources for fashion and model links on the Web. In addition to links for models, magazines, talent agencies, designers, and more, the site also provides an online newsstand from which you can subscribe to your favorite fashion mag right then and there.

Fiber's Babes and Supermodels

Fiber's very popular site provides hundreds of links to sites dedicated to popular celebrities and models. This well-organized and attractive page makes finding pictures of your favorite female star as easy as pie.

Freeones: The Ultimate Supermodels, Celebs, and Pornstars Links

This site lists hundreds of links to mostly free image galleries. As you may have guessed, its empahsis is not so much on fashion models.

Greenguy's Link-O-Rama

Although this last link isn't supposed to be here, it's for those of you who are here for the same reasons I am. Don't follow it looking for shots of Linda Evangelista modeling the newest thing in business suits. Oh yeah, there's lots of stuff on the opening page, but keep looking for the Link-O-Rama, it's there and it's worth it.

HQ Links -- The World of High Quality and Tasteful Erotic Photography

This is another outstanding resource for image collectors. It features hundreds of links to the best picture archives on the Net. It only lists sites with hi-rez scans, and it provides a useful description of each site. It categorizes the links as "non-nude," "softcare," "hardcore," "specific model" (tribute), and so forth. Obviously, a lot of work went into compiling this fine index.

Internet Imaging Artists Index

Taking the place of Homage's directory, this useful site indexes more than 100 of the Internet's premier scanners, vidcappers, and video producers and provides valuable info on each. It categorizes them by media and subject matter and lists their email addresses, web addresses, IRC channels, and their memberships in imaging groups. This is an indispensible resource for those interested in collecting high-quality digital images of models and celebrities.

The Labyrinth of Beauty (formerly The Land of Nowhere)

This attractive and interesting site provides a large and concisely annotated list of links for dozens of high-quality model archives, tribute sites, and other links pages. It also offers some basic biographical information for models listed in the tribute links. The site features its own tribute galleries devoted to MTV newswoman, Serena Altschul, British actress, Natascha McElhone, and model, Tracy Zahoryin. Apart from looking better and getting to the point quicker, The Land of Nowhere shares many principles with The Art of Beauty.

M-Babes: Your Link to Babes, Models, Supermodels

Once you get acquainted with this site's very attractive but somewhat confusing design, it can point you to quality tribute sites for dozens of celebrities and models. Though it clearly emphasizes individual tributes, M-Babes also lists more general galleries (like this one). When selected, each link opens inside M-Babes' central frame window, which makes it easy to quickly sample a bunch of sites at once. Of course, you can always break free of the M-Babe frame when you find someplace you want to explore in detail.

Supermodels by Mindwarp

Mindwarp offers a nice collection of ranked and annotated links (even if he did drop me). Many of the pages he lists I don't recall seeing elsewhere.

Stars et Starlettes

Similar to Mindwarp's index, this new French site offers a large list of links to tribute sites organized by the name of the celeb or model. It's obviously in the early stages of development, but it's already worth a look and virtually certain to become an outstanding resource with a European flavor.

TOPCELEBS

This outstanding, free resource contains hundreds of celeb and model links, each annotated with an accurate, if sometimes generous, description. The database is categorized in a number of ways to aid you in finding the type pictures you want.

Yahoo! - Arts:Design Arts:Fashion:Supermodels

Yahoo's supermodel links.

The Modeling Guide

A very good place for aspiring models to get some basic information about the modeling industry and career opportunities

John Casablancas Modeling and Career Centers

Elite Model Management

Elite Model Management France

Ford Models

Ford Models Europe

IMG Models (UK)

Next Models

ID Model Management

EMODEL.COM

Better Business Bureau Rip-Off Warning

Pro-Model Model Search Info

Techno Babble

Although master scanner and imaging artist, Light Duty, has had to pretty much shut down his image archive because of server problems, he is still maintaining this entertaining and useful discussion of various subjects related to scanning, editing, and publishing digital images.

Andy's Photoshop Tips

The single best source for information on using Adobe Photoshop -- the best image editor available -- Andy's site illustrates and explains how to create numerous useful effects, and it also contains a comprehensive list of links to other Photoshop-related sites.

Invasion of the Photoshop Freaks

Much like Andy's site listed above, this one offers a number of tips and tutorials for producing various effects with the premier photo-editing software, Adobe Photoshop.

Photoshop Tips and Tricks

A professional resource Webzine loaded with advice and examples of PhotoShop techniques. While many sections require a membership, a good deal of the info is available for free.

Ultimate Compendium of Photoshop Sites

This free site archives links for Adobe Photoshop-related sites in three categories: those offering filters and plugins (commercial, shareware, and free), those offering tips and techniques that aid in using the powerful image editor, and those offering "action" files, or macros that automate a variety of tasks from simple to extremely complex. Though the site is still under construction, it is obviously the result of much hard word. Very well designed and extremely useful to Photoshop users, the site provides detailed descriptions and evaluations of the many products and services found on the linked sites. To do this, it relies to some extent on contributions from its users, so I would encourage everyone with useful information to pass it on and anyone with useless criticism to keep your damned mouth shut.

Scanning Tips: A List of Web Sites

Just as its title promises, this site provides an annotated list of about 15 sites, FAQs, and pages that provide information about specific and general scanning issue.

GIF Animation Archive (may be inactive--I'm checking)

You have to see this site to appreciate it -- a truly amazing and useful collection of animations, tips, and links.

Scanner and Halftone Links

This site indexes a varied and valuable set of links related to scanning issues.

3D Artists

An invaluable resource for serious graphic artists, this site lists the names and locations of many of the most talented 3D designers working on the Net, exhibits examples of their work, and hosts tutorials, FAQs, and discussions related to 3D graphics.

The Official FML Homepage

The Fashion Mailing List, or FML, is a loose confederation of fashion-model scanners and webmasters who exchange images and ideas with one another. The site provides more information on the group and its members as well as some examples of their work. If you're a scanner interested in such an association, you might want to check it out.

Screen It! Entertainment Reviews for Parents

Designed to help parents shield their children from inappropriate movies, videos, and music, Screen It! maintains a huge database of very detailed movie and CD reviews which is updated weekly with the newest releases. While they miss a few of the less prominent films, Screen It! covers the majority of films released in theaters or on video in the last two years. Intent on alerting parents to the amount and type of violence, profanity, drug use, and sex depicted in movies and music, the writers specifically address these areas in each review. For example, they list each scene of nudity or sex in a movie, describing which characters partially or totally disrobed, how much they showed, and for how long they showed it . . . you figure it out.

CGFA- Carol Gertsen's Fine Art- A Virtual Art Museum

Carol Gerten's virtual museum truly epitomizes the spirit of generosity, the talent, and the hard work that has made the World Wide Web an unparalled repository of freely available information. As long as there are people like Carol and her supporters, the Internet will never fully succumb to commercial pressure. Her Virtual Art Museum houses a staggering collection of hundreds of top-quality scans of fine art, primarily oil paintings. Virtually any painting you know and many you don't are there, indexed by title and artist, organized in timelines, through artist biographies, and by period. You have to see this to believe it. It makes similar sites operated by museums and universities look paltry and amateurish by comparison. As might be expected, the high traffic generated by the site and its several mirrors threatens its existence; a few of the mirrors have already been shut down. If you're looking for a good deed, help out this enterprise. You couldn't find a more deserving cause.

The copyright privileges pertaining to all images posted on The Art of Beauty are retained by their respective owners, and no infringement or claim of license is intended or should be inferred. All images on this site are displayed free of charge and only intended for the personal enjoyment of individuals while they are visiting here. None may be sold, used to promote or advertise any product or service, or employed in any commercial context, medium, or form. It is my belief that, far from damaging the value of this property or the reputation of its owners, the display of images on this site can only benefit those with a proprietary interest in them. However, valid requests by the actual copyright holders of said images to remove them from this site will be immediately honored. Source information for all images can be obtained upon email request from the webmaster of this site.

The copyright privileges pertaining to both the HTML code and the text contained in this Web site known as The Art of Beauty are retained by their author, ME. Neither may be reproduced, republished, retransmitted, or otherwised appropriated in any manner except as necesary for my host to promote and publish this site as I have designed it or within the limited scope and following the established conventions of "acceptable use" for the quotation of brief passages of published materials and then only with proper attribution and without alteration or emendation.

The author wishes to thank Dave, webmaster of Fashion Model Index and Jorgen of The Fashion Index for the use of some images formerly on this site. Also, I'd like to mention, among others, The Greenguy, Sage, Neuro, Brett, Fiddler, Lloyd, Luther, Dr. Pagan, Light Duty, and Flabby for their help, support, and inspiration. Finally, thanks to all the folks at the Model ID Board and those who've emailed in for help in identifying various models. And an especial thanks to the galleries and indexes that have linked to this site.

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• I list sites only when I think they will appeal to my visitors, not because a link exchange will bring me hits. Do not expect that the offer to "trade links" will persuade me to list a site.
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• I do not post banners -- period! Do not ask me to exchange or display banners (yes I display one banner now -- mine).
• I do not join web rings (among other things, they require banners).
• I will not list sites that have Java traps, multiple pop-ups, or any type of excessive commercial content. If the main reason you created a web site was to make money, I wish you success, but I will not link it here.
• I will only list sites on which a majority of the images have pixel dimensions of 1024/768 and higher.
• I will only list sites whose design principles and elements compatible with a wide variety of systems and browsers. Sites that rely heavily on DHTML (works on IE only), JAVA, and similar "rich content" coding earn no points with me. I'm interested in pages that load fast and work, not those with cool, flashy layouts and designs.
• I will no longer list sites here devoted to "babe" or "bikini" pics. I don't have room. (Celeb sites, contact me about the links page on my celeb site).
• I will no longer list sites devoted to promoting unpublished models. Don't even ask.
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