Artist models

Pictures by LIFE magazine photographers paying tribute to the artist at work, and the simple, beautiful human form -- the artist's muse.

Christophe Nayel is an artists’ model with a specialty. He has a remarkably expressive face and can hold facial expressions for a long time. He did the pose above this past Monday morning at Spring Studio‘s three-hour session, twenty minutes between breaks. He squeezed a wet tissue over his eyes to simulate tears, and made […]

"Women are not supposed to show that they've lived. They're meant to be flawless and smooth. It's bullshit," says Aleah Chapin.

Bruce Gilden captured striking and harrowing portraits of prostitutes for his new collection Only God Can Judge Me. They told him stories of being set on fire and getting hooked on drugs.

Are you looking for universal female poses for any figure? Save these 30 female model poses and use them at the portrait photoshoot.

In recent years, his paintings commanded staggering prices at auction, including one of an overweight nude woman sleeping on a couch that sold in 2008 for £17.2m.

McRae uses film and images to consider how technology could transform the human body in the future

Alexandra Levasseur paints fantastical portraits of women that balance naturalism and existentialism.

A good studio for an artist is a very important place. Creative studios might sometimes look like a pile of rubbish or a mixed-up room, but this is where famous artists paintings are born!

On Sept. 11, 2008, a woman named Janet Tessier — tormented for 14 years by her mother’s deathbed confession — drafted an e-mail to the Illinois State Police. She had tried to alert authorities twic…