Alas & Piggot and Terry Richardson are one of my faves!

anton corbjin, mm paris ... too many

http://www.rankin.co.uk/ Underage Thinking, Means to an End, Moved On.

There are a lot of good photographers aroiund,at the moment I like the experimemntal work of Nick Knighht but also like the work of bWill Vander???? can not remeber the full name without checking it, his work is more in the traditional erotic sence of photographers.
I know that some will disagree with me but I still like the work of Bruce Weber, he is also constant with his work and crosses well in to art fouse film.

I prefer photographers who can get away from the usual studio locations, tjhere is only in a majority of cases so much you can do in the studio.
I would like to see more imaginative use of studio, like with the pin up of Nick Nights figure in Another Magazine spring summer 2006 a two page pull out of a girl coverd in ice cream and paint, very raunchy and erotic, with a great use of lighhting.
To many magazines are using flatly lit studio pictures that do nothing for the sale of clothes or the model, with mono expressions like manaquins as mentioned before.
The body as well as the clothes should be seen as a work of art.
As mentionerd also before I do not think much of the Punk Style of Terry Richasrdson,and think that it is degrading to the people he is working with.
It records a lifestyle and the way people live, but I dont think that in a lot of his work that it is over imaginative and a lot of photographers work in a similar style, including students at college, showing dysfunctiuonal lifestyles.

Willy Vanderperre presumably?

I wouldn't say Terry Richardson is degrading the subjects he works with. His work certainly divides people (which I beleive all good work does, though I'm not a fan of his particulary) but he's not holding a gun to anybody's head, everyone is very willing. He's created a brand of himself by doing this, something I am impressed with to a certain extent. I've got a really old issue of Dazed where he shot a really slick story, nice lighting lots of slick styling etc. - very non Terry. I wonder whether he realised the competition for that type of photography was so intense and then took the lo fi option as a result of that? It's very interesting if you read about photographers like Hiromix and their inspirations from the likes of Terry etc.

Anyway, in New York he gets mobbed in the street apparently. And he gets laid a lot. Surely every kids dream of stardom?

In no particular order...

Mert & Marcus
Steven Meisel
Glen Luchford
Nick Knight
Mario Sorenti
Vincent Peters
Solve Sondsbo
Paolo Roversi
Miles Aldridge
Guy Bourdin
Helemt Newton

I could go on forever really...

I know what you are saying Ben and wish that I was in his position, getting the models the work the locations, maby his popularity stems from the reality gritty aproah to his work.
I have seen some veery good pictures of his in Dazed and Confused and other magazines as mentioned, before,but techncally I do not rate hin that much.
A statment Bailey made about Weber a while ago is I dont know how he does it.
I think this about Terry, art is diffrent things to us all, its just that I would rather see it done more creativly, there is a lot of shocking humer in his work, look at his book, at porn,humer shock, as you know I try not to be negative to other peoples work, I would rather be constuctive, I would have no problem with porn either as long as it was done creativly, Konrads work from this forum is in a simmilar style to Terrys so I should think( If he has not all ready) he could find a neash in Canada.
It is easier to get the models and push any style of work when you are allready well established.
Maby I should not hae brought the subject up again as its ground we have coverd before with some very strong views in favour of him. All the best

Its amazing how he can stretch it so much... I mean in Terryworld he twists it, pulls it, sticks it... and he manages to take the pictures as well.

Now thats magic. As Paul Daniels once said.

Many people dont rate his work but he sure gets a lot of column inches on any talk about photography, now thats marketing.

Hats off to the "Polish Plumber" as he was once referred to in a story i read about him.

Its a rock star life, how much is a media persona and how much is reality. Have a look at his book terryworld if you can find an unsealed copy in a bookshop.

So is it fair to say we like to not like terry richardson?

Is it envy or is it snobbery when people say negative stuff about his work?

I like Meisel, Sednaoui, Thierry Les Goues, Tim Flach... list goes on.

Mostly because of their inventiveness in the majority of their work, you can tell a meisel shoot pretty quickly and so to people like paolo roversi as they have a defineable style.

How about what do you like about a certain fashion photographer and what most would you like to emulate in your work, be it style, attitude or success?

Thats the one I was talking about but trying not to re advertise it
? I asked ten out of ten readers if they preferd Terry World to other art books and they sad,eh eher Oh Sorry getting in to quiz show mode.
No I did ask, and see it at our local big chain W----st----book store, and they thought it was tacky porn and old men with macks hang around looking for the book,(DONT SAY ANYTHING) there words not mine.
You are right, he has got a big one and stretches it to the limits, and can grab the column inches so to speak, which is no small feet, and you know whast they say about small feet, which in Terrys World I mean case is not true unless we are looking through a 28mm lens of course.