As the focus of this controversy, Terry Richardson is actually what kind of person? Why did he choose this way to be creative? Face of the condemnation and solidarity, he also intends to make any response?
“Do you really think you are too outrageous?” TerryRichardson asked. He wore a black T-shirt, overalls, white socks and sneakers, real look better than some of the pictures short hair very short copy, to stay Wenyu upward curved mustache, wearing a 1970s-style big box color glasses. His muscular arms covered with tattoos: big breasts women, hieroglyphics, opening in the black spider web on the elbow – are you the kind of sailor who can see the old pattern.
Terry’s family is typical of New York’s Lower East Style: open type structure, a kitchen, the other end are the bedroom, a double bed just embedded in the walls inside. Walls covered with young girls everywhere, street punks and punk bands of black and white photographs, but not one from his own hands. Legendary punk bar CBGB on the same street, his neighbor. For a punk spirit into the fashion photography of the photographer, the place appropriate. This is Terry’s “home”, he is here.
“In fact, I do not like the erotic subject matter.” He shook his head and said, “Erotic Art always make me depressed, it’s a world full of sorrow and pain, it is difficult to find joy, even just shifting the burden . with a lot of my friends are different, I do not often see sexual films, not to Yanwu club. I do not like to delight in other people’s suffering. That’s not my style. Each person involved in my shooting have a great time. ”
May be true, he said. The girl sounded TerryRichardson studio door may be less without incident, may love the performance, may lack a sense of security, may also be a combination of each of these features, but they do willingly, eager to perform in front of his camera.
“I have a basic principle: others have behaved, not impose on others.” He said, “all naturally developed to such a degree. From the beginning, I just want to shoot pictures of a few slightly exposed. In order to model not tension, I like her clothes off. I’ll even give the camera model, so she gave me 拍几张照片. This is to create more inspiration, photographer relax, excited. Once the burst of passion You can do whatever they had. “So saying, he childlike giggling together.
Break the boundaries of the photographer
Remind the reader, regardless of social norms, ethics or behavior of common sense, does not work in the fashion world. Fashion designer, art director and editor are on drug addiction, anorexia and even terrorism has always been accustomed, while Erotic Art is the most common of which is also one of the most enduring themes. Just looking through the “Vogue”, “Dazed & Confused”, “Pop” and other magazines, you will find that Terry Richardson is the undisputed king.
Richardson cut a striking figure in the mid-1990s. He used a large plain glass pictures, photos, brutal rough cut too, and sometimes also the case of no additional lighting for filming. His primitive style with no modification or Stephen Meisel Nick Knight who spend big bucks, a perfect fashion large contrary; than Juergen Teller and Corinne Day and so the same line of photographers taking snapshots of style, he works on treatment of the theme is even more daring. Katharine Hamnett shot in his ads, the models in short skirts privacy zone under the loom.
Another memorable photos from the model JosieMoran in the Sisley ad performance: she drill down to the stomach following a cow, squeeze the milk directly to the mouth. Richardson is always ready to break boundaries, jumped into the restricted area, despite shooting commercials, he is also willing to accommodate customers closer to the mainstream standards of beauty, which in non-commercial work, he is without reservation the extreme with a way to present his own private life.
Fashion insiders who have heard each of Terry and a model of “unintentional Aventure.” Once a reputation, he found some girl back when the door is well prepared in this regard. Before long, the atmosphere became wild and shooting up, the last Terry’s photography assistant often had to take over the camera to stop filming. “I always say my job is to create photographs, not just photographs.” Terry explained.
Record your own photographer
“I have a lot of problem is solved in the course of their work.” He admitted, “I mean, I do not think he is nymphomania, but I do have trouble – still a lot. For example I have experienced, middle-aged crisis; such as drug after-effects of alcohol; another example, a number of psychological problems – I used to be shy children, who becomes so a command of the young girl by a man. In a sense, I tried to working to make all kinds of personal crisis eased. “For these words, perhaps some people would deny that he mistakenly put his neurosis equivalent of ordinary people to handle small hobby.
He had never thought of these “gadgets” as personal items hidden? “Why?” He solemnly asked “I mean, I’m a photographer ah. Recording is my job, then why not record my own life? I do everyone will do – they will closed doors, with a Polaroid camera to photograph his girlfriend, but they put these pictures in a drawer, or to blacken the face of the photo, then upload to the Internet. In my view, is too unhealthy to do a . They think it is shameful thing, I do not let it show. I just put everything in front of it show. Now that’s true liberation. ”
Well said, photography is it for him a kind of psychological therapy? May be a humble person inside in retaliation? After considering a moment, he replied: “This is only part of the story, but not all. I just have been trying to solve the problem, find the answer to ordinary people. Someone should say that my work pornographic pictures, I did not view . If people saw these pictures shocked, offended, and I think it better. It has been in the street yell at me: ‘I hate those damn your photos!’ I thank him for that. ”