Now THIS is a topic that I have been waiting for...Terry T-Bone Richardson. Porn as Fashion/Fashion as Porn. It is great that he has capitalised on this trend but I really don't see how his more graphic work can be called fashion photography. The fashion industry has always wanted to push boundaries and challenge what the mainstream would call good taste, Helmut Newton and Guy Bourdin being good examples of this - but their work, even then, could only be classified as erotica. The bulk of Terry's work is Porn - pure and simple - and I think that the fashion industry only uses him because it is the most obvious boundary to push - the same applies to Richard Kern. I have seen a lot of Terry's more restrained fashion photography and it is really good - he easily adapts to either porn or straight fashion. I think that Terry's work is great, and I hope he makes a packet out of fashion while this amalgamation of porn with couture lasts - but I don't think that this trend will add anything of value to the history of fashion photography.
And Dude...Put it away - I'm trying to eat.
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did you know his father was an amazing photographer?id like to see a father and son exhibition.i dont like colour photography.
Called in to our local Waterstones book store yesterday, a friend behind the Counter told me that they get a lot of gruby old men picking up Terrys book and looking at it. Does that sum up his work?
just something to add: the other night whirlwind heat did a gig in my city. Terry Ricahrdson directed their video "purple". you should check it out. I asked a couple of the guys from the band what he was like , they said "complicated", " he has a big heart, a big bulging heart".
I have just come across a back issue of Another Magazine of mine, it has a body of work by Terry Richards, I though where very good, how long has Terry been working for magazines, I have only known his work since his latest book came out.