34-model release exist?

If you look closely, most photo agency catalogs and promotions will have some kind of language about their model release policy. Often it reads something like, "All pictures fully model-released".

As we've discussed above, what you think that means might not be what it actually means.

Here's how that might translate: "The photographers have told us the pictures are released, and we've chosen to believe them, but we've never actually seen the releases, although I think last Tuesday I saw one lying around someplace, and, besides, if we had to get our hands on them all we have to do is call the photographer, if he's still alive."

Tip: If you have any concerns at all about the agency you are dealing with, find out specifically what their policy is regarding model releases. Do they see a copy of the release for every single model in every single picture? Do they keep copies of those releases on premises, cross-referenced to each picture, so that if a problem arises you can be furnished-- immediately-- with a copy of the release?