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Terry Richardson

Terry Richardson is a famous American fashion and portrait photographer; he was born on August the 14 of 1965 in New York City he takes photos/shots of advertising campaigns for Marc Jacobs, Supreme, Aldo, Sisley, Tom Ford, and Yves Saint Laurent along with others, Terry also takes photos for magazines such as Rolling Stone, GQ, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Harper’s Bazaar, I-D and Vice.

Terry decided to move in with his mom at the age of 16 to Ojai California where he went to Nordhoff high school; back in school Terry played the bass guitar in a band for four years called The Invisible Government after that he was in three other bands because he wanted to be a punk rocker than before he found interest on being a photographer.

Terry was given his first snapchat camera by his mother in 1982, he decided to use his camera for document his life and the punk rock scene in Ojai, by the year of 1992 Terry decided to quit the music and moved to the East Village in New York City, this where he began to shooting scenes of the young people partying and New York City’s nightlight also Terry had his first big break in New York City, in 1994 Terry had his first published fashion photos appear in the Vibe, his vibe spread was shown at Paris’s international Festival later that year, in spring 1995 collection Terry also shot an advertising campaign for the fashion designer Katharine Hamnett’s, the whole campaign was noted for images of young women wearing very short skirts with the pubic hair showing...

Following Katharine Hamnett advertising campaign Richardson decided to move to London England, while he was in London he worked for European magazines such as The Face, I-D and Arena.

Throughout Terry’s career, Terry Richardson has taken shots for campaigns such as fashion brands and famous designers like Marc Jacobs, Aldo, Supreme, Tom Ford, Sisley, and Yves Saint Laurent, He has also taken photos for magazines such as Rolling Stone, GQ, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Vice, I-D, Harper’s Bazaar and vice.

In Richardson’s career he has produced several campaigns for Diesel also including Global Warming Ready in 2007 that won a silver lion for print a Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival in Terry’s career over the years he has also got to produce private portraits for the company’s founder Renzo Rosso in September 2011 at the time they hosted a mutual book launch together with theb fashion editor Carine Roitfeld in Paris at Colette.

Terry Richardson embarked his first solo exhibition in Los Angeles’s at the OHWOW Gallery in the year 2012, at the exhibition they diced to make the title “TERRYWOOD” and it ran from February 24 to the 31 of March 2012 but two months later they had a video of model Kate Upton performing the Cat Daddy dance for Terry Richardson in his studio that went viral in may 2012, by December 2012 the singer Lady Gaga announced that Terry Richardson was going to start filming a documentary about her very own life.

Terry style in his photography has several repeating themes in all of his work, what he decides to do is put high profile celebrities in mundane situations and starts photographing them using traditionally pedestrian methods, such as the use of an instant camera, in almost all of his work had explores ideas of sexuality but he also is known of taking photographs of his nonsexual portraits of celebrities such as Miley Cyrus, Sharon Stone, Megan Fox, Lindsay Lohan, Kat Dennings, Kate Moss, Katy Perry, Liza Minnelli, Miranda Kerr, Kim Kardashian, Samuel L. Jackson, Tracy Morgan, A$AP Rocky, Pharrell Williams, Lil Wayne, Daft Punk, Jon Bon Amy Winehouse, Jadred Leto, LeBron James and the president of the united states of America Barack Obama, but the ideas of sexuality he has many of the pieces featured in his books “Kibosh” and “TerryWorld” in his book it has depicting full-frontal nudity and both simulated and actual sexual acts.

Many of Terry Richardson’s subjects would be shot before a white background with the celeb/ subject his taking photos of in the middle of the background put up but eventually he expanded to other backdrops, he is also known for him and his subjects posing together in photos but often he would give them his trademark glasses so they would look like him, Terry Richardson counts on Larry Clark, Nan Goldin, Robert Frank and Diane Arbus as his early influences on his artistic style for his photography, His work has officially been praised by Helmut Newton

He has also been in a lot of photo books such as

·         Hysteric Glamour Tokyo in 1998

·         Son Of Bob, Little More Tokyo 1999

·         Terry Richardson – feared by men, by women, Shine Gallery London in 2000

·         Too Much Italy in 2002

·         Terry – The Terry Richardson Purple Book, Purple Institute Paris in 2004

·         Terry Richardson, Stern Gruner + Jahr Hamburg in 2004

·         TerryWorld By Dian Hanson, Tashen Hong Kong Los Angeles in 2004

·         Kibosh, Damiani Editore Bologna in 2006

·         Manimal, Hysteric Glamour Tokyo in 2006

·         Rio, Cidade Maravilhosa Diesel/Vintage Denin Brazil in 2007

·         Hong Kong, Diesel Hong Kong in 2011

·         Mom And Dad, Morel Books London in 2011

·         Lady Gaga and Terry Richardson, Grand Central Publishing New York City in 2011

 This is one of Terry Richardson’s photos of the rapper Tyler The Creator from the group Odd Future, This photo really catches my eye, reasons why is that how Terry has a white background but and the corners  of the background starts to get darker looks grey but that is because of the Beauty Dish he is using to get so much detail in the photographs his taking, like the details that on the face of Tyler you can see near enough every detail in his face and his clothing, What I think that would also catch the viewers eye is the way posed also the refection of the light in his eyes it gives Tyler a serious look in his eyes.

 I like how you can see the refection of his shadow in the white background, how it caught my eye is the lighting of the background as the camera and lighting is focused on his face the bottom are of his clothes get darker and so does the background itself, its great how he used Butterfly lighting even though the viewer can’t really see the shadow underneath the subjects nose, in my case the shadow is really thin because it really depends on the subjects size and look of the nose so if their nose is longer and pointed you will get more of a shadow under the nose but if the subjects nose is small and flat more than a point long nose the shadow becomes more harder to spot in a photograph another thing is you can spot a shadow under the chin of the subject and what gives it away is how bright the photo is and you have a really detailed shadow in the background of Tyler’s head.

What caught my in this photograph of the photographer Terry Richardson is how detail the colour of the subject eyes are and the background again become a dark grey at the corner of the photo also I like how he decides to use a white background for mostly every photograph he takes of a celebrate but what I also noticed and what also caught my eye is that he used a bit of clam shell lighting in this photo, reasons why I said clam shell lighting is because of the way the precision the model/ subjects face is to the background as you can see on the model/ subjects face it gets darker toward the right of her face then you can see the detailed shadow you get left behind and that’s why I said Terry Has used clam shell lighting, what would catch the viewers eye and what my opinion on this photo is detail on her eye its bring out a really strong vibe and it gives of a really good impact to the photograph, what makes this photo great is how the colour of her hair and outfit is near enough same colour, what I like about it is because its different, it gives off a reflection on the light and that is another thing that give off a really good impact to the photo it really separates the model/ subject to the background, what would grab my attention is the detail of the shadow you can almost see the little shadow underneath her nose and to the right side of the nose, it almost looks as if Terry Richardson has used butterfly lighting in his photo but what made me say he used clam shell lighting is how the model/ subjects face and body is posed what I think Terry has done for his set up is he more time got his subject to pose so her face is more to the side of the background instead of her face being straight like “Tyler The Creator” so he then can use two soft-boxes on both side of the model/ subject at the same distance and the angle to get that shadowy look at the right side of her face.