Glamourcon was a fan convention that took place twice a year, once in
Chicago
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and once in
Los Angeles
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, that centers upon glamour models and
glamour photography
Glamour photography is a genre of photography in which the subjects are portrayed in attractive poses ranging from fully clothed to nude, and often erotic. Photographers use a combination of cosmetics, lighting and airbrushing techniques to prod ...
, with its guests typically being ''
Playboy
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''
Playmates
Playmates or Playmate may refer to:
* ''Playboy'' Playmate, a female model featured in the centerfold/gatefold of ''Playboy''
Film and television
* ''Playmates'' (1915 film), directed by Mauritz Stiller
* ''Playmates'' (1918 film), starring O ...
, ''
Penthouse'' Pets, ''
Hustler'' Honeys, ''
Perfect 10''
Models
A model is an informative representation of an object, person, or system. The term originally denoted the plans of a building in late 16th-century English, and derived via French and Italian ultimately from Latin , .
Models can be divided int ...
, soft core
pornographic actresses and other
pin-up model
A pin-up model is a model whose mass-produced pictures and photographs have wide appeal within the popular culture of a society. Pin-up models are usually glamour, actresses, or fashion models whose pictures are intended for informal and aesth ...
s. A
portmanteau
In linguistics, a blend—also known as a blend word, lexical blend, or portmanteau—is a word formed by combining the meanings, and parts of the sounds, of two or more words together. of the phrase "glamour convention", it was founded by
entrepreneur
Entrepreneurship is the creation or extraction of economic value in ways that generally entail beyond the minimal amount of risk (assumed by a traditional business), and potentially involving values besides simply economic ones.
An entreprene ...
Robert Schulz.
External links
*
"Glamourcon 44 Chicago" ''Unrated Magazine''. Chicago. August 2008.
Defunct multigenre conventions
Defunct fan conventions
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