Glamour Images’ Recipe For Success: Sex Sells
In my teenage years I used to be surprised at the enormous amount of magazines with Glamour Pictures on their front covers, which literally piled up in the aisles of stores. Not only did women-centered magazines like Vogue or Cosmopolitan or Maxim had such covers but I would be amazed to see glamorous ladies showing off their skins in magazines related to Men’s Health. I and my mates inevitably ended up looking at those attractive magazine covers and pondering why such images would decorate Men’s magazines. Later on I felt quite surprised at how quickly such periodicals would sell – they were literally creamed off by the customers. Having become more proficient in advertising matters and in glamour photography, I seem to have discovered the key to this popularity. It is quite simple – “sex sells”
For many soaring artists sexual context and motifs are a formula of success in Glamour Photography, as there is hardly a more influential stimulus to be used on the market. A magazine cover is critical for successful marketing, and it often happens that an irresistible crowning image draws multiple sales – men buy it because of their sheer desire to learn something that will help them conquer such a girl, and women succumb to the impeccably glamorous persona they would like to equal or better.
In the past, average women responded negatively to covers with extra glamorous images or with explicit sexual content. Later on, due to major achievements in the field of media and popular culture, many women embraced more enthusiastic attitude to glamour images. Therefore, as photographers, we need to give extra emphasis in trying to create glamour image while doing female shots. A magazine cover with an irresistible, seductive woman on it will definitely fall to liking with a number of people of all genders and ages, automatically becoming successful commercially. We all still remember how popular the cover of Vogue go when teenager Miley Cyrus bared almost everything for the shot of the infamous glamour image that caught the attention of the world. So as photographers, need to keep that in mind and try to create sensual glamour image because we know that “sex sells”.
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