Terry Richardson

so... what do the babblelovers think of his work?

 

 

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well?

 

love / hate / care / whatever ????

meh.

 

though i think it would be funny to put my finger in juliette louis' (sp?) mouth and take a picture.

Originally posted by <the K7 edit>

though i think it would be funny to put my **** in juliette louis' (sp?) mouth and take a picture.

Isnt he some how connected to Vice.. maybe im thinking of the wrong guy. I actually like what was posted (In the sense that im so used to seeing shitty black and white photo's of girls sitting on chairs looking depressed that its a breath of fresh air) - with the exception of the superman photo, However i know nothing of photography, so if these photo's suck im in the dark about it.

i love it!

Richardson mag - A1 A2 A3

 

hi class porn.

 

http://www.richardsonmag.com/

hes pretty much a regular photographer for vice magazine. ive seen polaroids of his before in person and theyre pretty funny. seems as if dude is just having a blast taking pics of people doing drugs, naked asian girls, and random street shit. all in all, hes a good photographer.

damnit, firewall wont let me see the site.

i really like the stuff ive seen from him in the past.

 

the problem with dudes work is that its not technical, and from what i've seen, it's not even insanely unique, it's just dependent on being in all the wrong places at all the right times...which i guess is sort of an art, but it's a very fine line. i could easily see athousand copy cats doing similar stuff. this isnt me knocking him by the way, he does his thing, and i both like and respect it, but i also think it's kind of like neckface...i dont mind that eh does it, but once everyone started doing it, i'd hate it all.

 

whatever. that girl needs to shave her punani.

^ some of his campaign works are really well done.

There's no technical flaws in them and it's clearly a big

money studio set up. I'm sure the people at Gucci are saying:

 

'lets get that richardson to do it but send people down to make

damn sure he doesnt blow the budget on ski and hookers'

his pictures are interesting, but i pretty much consider them glorified porn.

 

pat o'dell, another vice photographer said it best on his site. "His pictures were so dirty new levels that I don't think anyone else could ever match them. At least he raised the perv bar so high that the situaish's won't be shocked anymore when we're like "how about we try the Catholic school girl uniform this time?"

 

he just seems like a creepy, pervy type of guy who has a good eye for next level offensiveness, maybe not for photography. what do i know, though?

 

hes making money and having a good time, i can appreciate that. he found a good niche in the photog world and is making the best of it.

just to show some of the more polished campaign work he's done:

 

 

but yeah.... the 'glorified (amature) porn' label does tend to stick for a reason.

i like all those photos, but i mean, 1 semester at any community college will teach you how to set up lights, ya know? and with the budget he's working with, anything can be touched up. not to say it needs to be, just saying that even with this stuff, technical ingenuity isnt what makes them fresh.

 

even if it is amature porn, still, it's very 'real' and thats what makes it cool. the people are ugly, the 'heroin chic' is actual heroin, not eye shadow. i like stuff like that. if he really is some perverse, sick fuck just makes it even better. if he was some rich art school kid, it would reak of pretention, but since he really probably does drive a utility van and is a pedophile, it's cool.

dont forget how often his photos feature his 'T-Bone'.

You wont find pretentious art students will to expose/exploit

themselves like he does.

 

I consider him more of a director than a photographer.

He clearly knows how to get a preformance out of his models

and does a great job capturing it on film.

T-Bone?

i'm assuming this must be his 'wang'? ha.

 

and yeah, i agree. i think dude is more of a personality with a camera, than a 'photographer'. every photographer gives his subject 'direction', but i think most the time its sort of just random generic cues 'make love to the camera, give me sexy' etc. from what ive seen of dude, it's a lot more 'personal'. i mean, sticking your thumb in juliette lewis's mouth is hillarious and i dont even know why, ya know? just cause its ridiculous. because no other 'professional' photographer would do that. it almost makes the photo entirely about him, and she's just their to facilitate it or something. i dont know. dude is amusing.

post more.

this has that real "in the moment" feel that ryan mcginley loves to use so much

 

 

 

 

love this flick

 

 

this one too...

 

 

 

 

 

maybe it's only me, but i get a really sad feeling when i look at most of his pictures. maybe it's the light or the subject matter...it's got a really dark feel to it. i think i'd get tired of photographing the stuff he does after awhile and have a nervous breakdown. the majority of it is really the underbelly of society.

what is great about terry richardson, is that he mixes high and low culture, bringing high to low and low to high in a way thats less ironic at this point due to saturation but its unique in its range and comfort in all of them, or i should say its equal discomfort in all of them. Blah blah more art shit.

 

The metal head flicks are MEtacular.

dudes dope.

i enjoy his work for what it is... and give the man credit for all his acomplishments - he def has an arm's length of them

 

i also like that fact that he kinda snubbed his nose at most fashion photographers and started to focus on the photographs rather then fancey gear and overblown sets - in some cases he shoots w/ a $50 p&s camera he picked up at walmart - partly because his eyes are so bad

 

a coffee table book of his would prob do very well

 

as for vice, i fucking hate that magazine.... they ripped a photo of mine off my site a few years back and printed it in one of their issues - w/ my copyright watermark straight on it - i did get ahold of the EIC after some work and a ton of phone calls - and he admited he was in the wrong... but it just left a bad taste in my mouth for an otherwise good rag

i am so going to look just like this dude in about 10 years. i cant fucking wait.

 

i like his photos.

Originally posted by heavyLox@Dec 18 2004, 12:00 AM

what is great about terry richardson, is that he mixes high and low culture, bringing high to low and low to high in a way thats less ironic at this point due to saturation but its unique in its range and comfort in all of them, or i should say its equal discomfort in all of them. Blah blah more art shit.

 

The metal head flicks are MEtacular.

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while nearly all of us here in ch0 are artsits, including tpatzonerski, "blah blah more art shit" is seriously how i read it the first time. i gave it a double take, and i'm not dissing or anything, i just wanted to announce that this is the first time this has ever happened. i seriously just read it, "blah blah blag art shit." i agree with you, though.

im not sure how to read what your saying, so to clarify, the 'blah blah more art shit', was just my way of not going too deep into a critical discourse of dudes photos. And while i have a certain appreciation for critical theory, it can really get in the way of just enjoying peoples work. However in terms of understanding it in relation to the rest of what's happening and has happened it is helpful to frame shit in a way that allows one to see what the salient aspects of the work are. Understanding how one things fits into a greater whole can be extremely useful.

So really my big humph about art speak is that some how just liking shit is not a valid answer for enjoying work or doing work; not that’s is should be a hard and fast rule, but there is something to it that is unresolved.

dude, i don't even remember typing that. i do that a WHOLE lot on here. it's sort of like thinking aloud except with a graffiti forum. i think i was trying to help you understand what i thought was funny at the time, and that was that i had just woke up and read what you typed. reading that about ten minutes after you've been awake sounds like "blah blah blah blah art shit." i wa

 

fuck this. i'll get back to you. i'm trying to get shit together right now and people are being impossible.

i was just about too start a new thread but i rembered this one so here gos:

 

Nothing is too vulgar for the magazine world's Marquis de Sade, Terry Richardson, whose full-frontal photographs of supple body parts, often in orgiastic orchestration, can really grab ya. His uncompromising style has left a trail of sticky magazine pages from here to down there and inspired a generation of photographers to keep it real. Taken with an old Instamatic, Richardson's body of work has become one of fashion's most instantly recognizable, and sought after; his sizzling images have appeared in the pages of i-D, French Vogue and Harper's Bazaar, as well as campaigns for Gucci, Sisley and Armani Exchange.

The product of an unconventional childhood—divided between New York and Los Angeles, where his father, the eccentric 60s fashion photographer Bob Richardson, lives—Richardson continues to occupy a space in between, blending a New York fashion sense with L.A. street cred. Richardson sat down with LEE CARTER to reveal his soft spots for cinema, cars and naked skateboarding.

 

 

 

Lee Carter: Is Terry Richardson a New Yorker or a So. Cal. kind of guy?

 

Terry Richardson: I think it's not where you're from, it's where you are, and right now I'm in New York. I feel like a New Yorker.

 

LC: Do you have another place in New York, or do you call this studio home?

 

TR: This is it—home, everything. I like how you refer to it as the studio. The French call it le studio. A lot's gone on this couch, let me tell you.

 

LC: Uh, should I get up?

 

TR: No. Just kidding. Sort of.

 

LC: Do you still skateboard?

 

 

TR: The last time I went skateboarding I was hit by a cab. I got a bruised hip and my face was cut up. I realized I shouldn't be skating around the streets of New York City. Safety first. Now I have an indoor skateboard.

LC: You skate in here?

 

TR: Yeah, on my little skateboard, the best $6 I ever spent in a thrift store. We have naked skateboarding contests. That'll be the concept for a future ad campaign, naked skateboarding.

 

LC: Naked skateboarding would be one of your tamer concepts. Has there been a time when you felt you'd gone too far? Too explicit?

 

TR: No, but there are a lot of pictures that have never run.

 

LC: I was thinking on the way over here that you would be ideal as a celebrity photographer for Playboy. Or something raunchier like Penthouse.

 

TR: Well, I'm working on some top secret stuff out in LA.

 

 

LC: But you can tell me, of course.

TR: Let's just say I get a lot of offers. But I like putting sexual images in mainstream magazines, not porn magazines. With porn mags, you'll see penetration and people fucking and fucking, but it all looks the same after a while. Fashion can look the same, too. I like to be subversive, to push images as far as I can and still get them run. It's a challenge to see what I can slip in.

 

LC: Pun intended?

 

TR: I like to explore sexuality and people instead of just showing cum shots, fist fucking and whatever to shock people.

 

LC: Does that make you an artist?

 

TR: Maybe.

 

LC: I saw an art show of yours at Alleged gallery a while back. And the soundtrack was the sound of really vitriolic phone messages, but no one knew who it was. I found out later they were between you and your father.

 

TR: Actually, it was just my father. He bombarded me one afternoon.

 

 

 

LC: What provoked it?

TR: Who knows? It goes deep. Everyone needs to vent sometimes.

 

LC: Is he still taking photos?

 

TR: Don't know. I haven't talked to him in about a year. He's still kicking. He's a strong fucker.

 

LC: I'm waiting for your quote about how he still gets a hard-on every morning. I've read that everywhere.

 

TR: Do I say that a lot? He says it all the time to me.

 

LC: The first time I read it, he was 70 and still getting a hard-on, the second time he was 71, then he was 74. He'll be 100 and still getting boners. That libido must run in the family.

 

TR: Yep, it's in the genes.

 

LC: Pun intended again? Maybe you can do what Ted William's son is trying to do and cryogenically freeze your dad's body. There's something in his DNA that needs to be preserved.

 

 

TR: Yes and no. [laughs] He's one-of-a-kind. He can't be duplicated.

LC: Not even in you?

 

TR: A bit. That's what I'm working on in therapy, not to repeat the same patterns.

 

LC: Do you want to have kids?

 

TR: Yes. Kids are amazing, I think the best conversations I've had in the last six months have been with 3-year-olds. They're so direct and honest. They don't know about too much stuff yet.

 

LC: Think you'll be a good dad?

 

TR: I think so. But I'm still just an eligible bachelor right now. It's kind of nice. I can do whatever I want. I like the freedom and the time to myself.

 

LC: What's a typically date like with Terry Richardson?

 

TR: [yells out to assistants] Hey, what's a typical date like with Terry Richardson, as I refer to myself in the third person?

 

 

Assistants: Golf!

 

LC: I take it there's no corsage involved?

 

TR: No corsage. I guess I would say I'm part romantic. [laughs] I sound like a dating service. "I like walks on the beach at sunset, sushi and rock climbing." I'm actually quite shy.

 

LC: You're shy?

 

TR: I like daytime dates. I like to just do whatever, go to the beach, take a walk, get an ice cream cone. There's less pressure. I don't wonder whether I'm going to take her home. This is like the Dating Game. [sings theme song] "Bachelor #2, what's your star sign?"

 

LC: I hear there's a modeling agency in London that takes Polaroids of their girls and tells clients they're your photos.

 

 

TR: Excellent! That's funny. It's like sampling. A girl told me someone went up to her on the street once and told her he was me, and tried to get her to his studio. That's kinda creepy.

LC: Did it work?

 

TR: No. But I want to find out who the impersonator is. And I've heard people dress up like me on Halloween.

 

LC: It wouldn't be hard. Just throw on some glasses and grow mutton chops.

 

TR: And there's already a mask of me in the Sisley catalog.

 

LC: That's a mask? So anyone can be Terry.

 

TR: Yeah. You know, put it on and make some love, Terry-style.

 

LC: Wouldn't girls want the real Terry?

 

TR: Nothing wrong with fantasy.

LC: Do girls throw themselves at you?

 

TR: Sometime, but the sleazy photographer thing is cliché.

 

LC: Can I see the famous instamatic? You have two, right?

 

TR: Oh, boy. [gets cameras] They're old, they don't make them anymore.

 

LC: Have you ever used a digital camera?

 

TR: No. [Editor's note: Terry later used a digital camera to take his self-portrait seen on the first page, the first time he'd taken a digital photo.] I like the idea of having negatives and making prints, but I'm not against digital. We just learned how to scan, actually. It's very exciting, we can send people pictures. We had the scanner for 2 years, but never did anything. We finally had somebody come over last week to show us how to use it. We needed to know so we can start building my website, http://www.terryrichardson.com, which should be up and running later this summer.

 

LC: You'll be the master of your own domain name. What else are you working on?

 

 

TR: A book for Taschen. I've done three books before, but this one is more of a retrospective art thing. I guess it's a coffeetable book. That's such a cheap term for a book, so vulgar. Whoever invented that should be shot. It sounds like there should be a little holder for a coffee mug and an ashtray. So I'm doing that, editorials, ad campaigns and just taking tons of picture. I'm also taking off across the country this summer in my car, a suped up black '87 Buick. I love cars. They're beautiful, like art objects.

LC: Sexual, too.

 

TR: Exactly. My car is called Mandingo, like the old pulp novel about a Southern plantation that would castrate the male slaves, but they'd also have a breeder, the stud, that the white women would all want to fuck, too. It was made into a film in the 70s with Ken Norton, who played Mandingo, James Mason, Perry King and Susan George. It's excellent, like an exploitation of Gone With the Wind.

 

LC: Sounds like you're a movie buff.

 

 

TR: Yeah, I'm in the midst of writing a screenplay, too. I have to submit it in December. I'm still putting ideas on paper. They want a European art house thing, with lots of sex.

LC: You're just the man for the job. What's the first film you saw that really impressed you?

 

TR: Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Five Easy Pieces, Carnal Knowledge, Out of the Blue, Over the Edge. And early Nicholson. My dad took me to see all that great 70s American cinema, like Godfather. And I like all those Jerry Shatzberg films with their bleak, unhappy endings that started with Midnight Cowboy. They're anti-heroes because they're criminals, and they die in the end.

 

LC: Which was a new thing at the time, not wrapping things up neatly at the end.

 

TR: Oh, totally. Have you read Easy Riders, Raging Bull? It's about all those guys making those realistic films of the 70s.

 

LC: Which is, in a sense, exactly what you're doing.

 

 

 

TR: Yeah. Keeping it real, that's what the kids say.

 

LC: You're one of few photographers who can marry art and commerce. You can bring a lot of sexuality to a brand like Sisley and it seems right.

 

TR: My best pictures are improvisational. It's all about casting, especially with Sisley. If the cast is wrong, the whole thing is fucked. If you get people who know what's going on, who are into it, then you just let them go, let them get into their characters.

 

LC: How much do you have to prod them?

 

TR: A little, but the casting is where I do the big grill session to see who's comfortable. A lot of people are exhibitionists once you get them going. I've had people fuck on set, and suck, and fuck some more. And guys fucking, girls fucking, guys and girls, penetration. Sometimes I'll cast a couple if I want them to do it, but strangers have done it, too. That's why casting is so important. I can't make magic with just anyone! But I'm not going to connect with everybody. I've walked off sets a couple of times. I said I was going out for coffee, then I'd leave.

 

 

LC: Are magazines very controlling? Or do they let you do what you want since you're Terry Richardson?

TR: There's more freedom with magazines than advertising. But even European mags are worried about advertisers now. You can't work with a glossy and bring in all new girls. They want the big names. It makes it harder for new people to break in. Like I've always said, it's not who you know, it's who you blow. I don't have a hole in my jeans for nothing.

 

LC: How long have you been shooting the Sisley campaigns?

 

TR: About five years.

 

LC: What's the inspiration behind the fall campaign?

 

TR: It was the first time we went into the studio. We just wanted to do a shiny black thing. Next time we're going back on location, for atmosphere. I think we're going to shoot the next one in LA again

 

 

LC: Think Woody ever went to rehab?

TR: What?

 

LC: I have to ask about rehab.

 

TR: Oh my god, where do you get the goods?

 

LC: I don't think it's embarrassing. It's common knowledge.

 

TR: Really?

 

LC: Sort of. Better to air it. Everyone's doing rehab these days anyway.

 

TR: Oh, I know, it's chic. I know so many people doing it.

 

LC: Silver Hill?

 

TR: No, somewhere in Pasadena. It was my first time. It really changed my life, made me really look at myself. It brings it all right down to simple things. It's nice to put your life on pause. Life is a beautiful thing. Before rehab I wanted to feel good all the time. "All things in moderation," as my mother always says. But a little excess can be good every once in a while

 

 

http://www.hintmag.com

I got the taschen TERRYWORLD book.

It's fun and nasty at the same time.

I usually hide it when company comes over.

always loved this dudes photos.