Dopers - I am sure this will be far easier than I have found it to be.
This is one of those silly things that, once I realized I couldn’t do it, has been nagging me ever since. A few weeks ago (a few months?), Amazon came out with ads for their new Kindle Voyage. They are black and white and some feature a beautiful Latin-looking woman.
I thought “hmm, I am 99.9% sure that is NOT Eva Mendes.” I thought I would do a quick check - and that is where my search-fu utterly failed. I can’t search on “Amazon Kindle woman model” or any variations of stuff like that. I can’t even bring up the B&W photos of this specific woman vs. the other Kindle ads featuring plenty of other models…
TL;DR: how does one search on an actor’s/model’s name when all the search words are hopelessly generic, or can mean other things, like model = type of Kindle?
If the ads are a static pictures, you use the snipping tool of Windows to grab the image. Then you use TinEye or Google Image search. Failing that, a 4chan request thread, though it’s unlikely to work unless the model is very attractive or well-known (which she apparently isn’t).
I just searched on Kindle Voyage ad until she came up, then reverse image searched until a modelling agency link came up, revealing the photographer’s name, in this case Annemarieke van Drimmelen.
I Googled Kindle Voyage and scrolled through pages without seeing these ads. I found plenty like the ones aceplace found, but not the B&W ones with that model.
I’m going to assume that, judging by the photos in the whole campaign, it was photographed in France, and therefore the model is likely French. That may make things a bit harder.
Thanks for these suggestions, but I am not seeing either of them. Both are beautiful, and Carme is Hispanic, but not the same model. Drake Burnett is pretty and photo’d by the same photographer, but I don’t see the connection to the woman in the Kindle photos…
Again - this was something I noticed weeks/months ago and was fascinated that it wasn’t easy to get the model’s name in this day of online search. I pretty much knew it wasn’t Eva Mendes from Day 1, but then was curious as to who it was. First I was surprised that a simpleton like me couldn’t identify the model - to the point where I didn’t bring it to the SDMB for a while, so I could check occasionally myself and avoid the embarrassment of admitting that I didn’t have strong enough search-fu to figure out who a model was in a huge Amazon campaign. I mean - this isn’t some one-shop boutique - this is freakin’ Amazon.
But a couple of months went by and my occasional searches turned up nothing, so I turned to the Dope, currently with no dice here, too. It remains interesting to me that this question is not the easy one I assumed it was.
You could look through the photographer’s portfolio on that Webber agency web page and see if any look like her. I didn’t find any definite matches, but I’m not necessarily good at this sort of thing. It’s weird, as in almost all of the other pictures the model is identified, but they are not mentioned for the Kindle campaign.
