A classic manual by the American photographer and photography theorist William Herbert Mortensen (1897-1965), addressing the mistakes most often made in posing a living model. Working in a pictorialist style in the 1920s-40s, Mortensen was one of Hollywood's best-known portrait photographers; unlike most books on portraiture, Model teaches the photographer what not to do while leaving them entirely free to develop their own style. As the book's translator puts it, Mortensen shares his vast experience of portrait-making and working with models the only way art can be taught - by leaving students complete creative freedom. Last published in the United States in 1938, the book remains relevant today; it is illustrated with the author's own black-and-white photographs and reproductions of paintings.