They Still Shoot Models My Age

Ranked #80 in Models

In 1969, at a bus-stop, Susan Moncur is recruited by Eileen Ford, who runs New York's most prestigious modelling agency. The next year she moves to Paris. Photographed by David Bailey, Sarah Moon, Helmut Newton, Serge Lutens, Gian Paolo Barbieri, Norman Parkinson and many others, Susan Moncur becomes one of the top fashion models of the decade. In 1983, her son is born and Susan Moncur very quickly discovers that, now as 'thirty-four year old model with child', she is no longer a hot property. Exposing and self-exposing, They Still Shoot Models My Age captures the precariousness of a... more

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