Biography
Probably, everyone at least once paid attention to the photos of Hollywood celebrities, made on a white background, with a predominance of red, bare body, smoke and supplemented with vintage glasses for sight. All this is a recognizable style of a shocking American photographer and clipmaker Terry Richardson.Childhood and youth
The biography of the Scandalous Fown Fashion Photographer Terry Richardson began on August 14, 1965 in New York, USA. The boy grew up in a creative family - his father Bob was a popular star photographer, collaborating with such glossy magazines, like Harper's Bazaar and Vogue, and Mother Norma (Annie) is an actress and dancer in Copacabana's nightclubs and BYE BIRDIE. Bob Richardson suffered from schizophrenia and narcotic dependence.
When Terry was 5 years old, his parents divorced. Together with the mother and stepfather - Gitarist Jackie Lomasom - he moved to Woodstock, New York, and then to the Hollywood district of Los Angeles, where he entered the local secondary school.
At 16, the guy moved to the city of Grow the state of California and completed education at the Nordhoff school. According to the memoirs of peers, Terry often fought, missed classes, was an unmanaged and rude teenager. For some time he visited the office of the psychologist.
In his youth, Richardson wanted to be realized more as a punk rock musician than a photographer. For 4 years, the guy played the bass guitar in the The Invisible Government group. He was also a bassist of many other punk groups in Southern California, including Signal Street Alcoholics (SSA), Middle Finger, Doggy Style and Baby Fist. The drive lifestyle led to the fact that for a while, the young man was hooked on drugs.
Career
The first steps in the work of the photographer Terry did in the early 1980s. He hired as an assistant familiar mothers photographer named Tony Kent. Richardson filmed mainly punk rockers from Ohio during performances and other musical events of the city. However, the father of the guy treated the novice works of the Son skeptically, after which Terry threw the camera and forgot about photographs for long 7 years.
In 1992, Richardson cast music and moved to the East Village area in New York, where youth parties and night club events began to photograph. It was here that the guy had the first big professional breakthrough - his pictures were published in the fashion magazine VIBE in 1994. Prior to that, worked in a duet with the father of Terry, finally, began to engage in his career independently.
At the same time, the novice artist of the arts was invited to take part in a photographing for the spring-winter-winter collection of the 1995 fashion designer Catherine Hamp. A provocative photo session with pornographic elements (in the pictures were captured by models in tiny skirts and without underwear) defined the future style of Richardson. Prone to frequent move, a man moved to London in the second half of the 90s, where he signed cooperation contracts with glossy editions ID, The Face and Arena.
Throughout his creative career, Terry Richardson created advertising campaigns for a number of elite trendy brands and designers, such as Sisley (in the photo for 2001, Josie Maran, who drinks milk from cow's vydez, and for the 2007th - two models, metaphorically consumers Cocaine), Gucci (with the participation of the Erin Washon model), Tom Ford (pictures are captured by naked breasts and thighs of a model that holds the bottle of male perfumes), Diesel (campaign theme is global warming), etc.
The last shooting called Global Warming Ready Print won the "Silver Lion" award in 2007 at the Cannes International Festival dedicated to advertising. Two years later, Richardson organized a photo session for fashion designer Mark Jacobs in Harper's Bazaar magazine, on which a man is completely naked, painted by the Louis Vuitton brand name and holds a bag in his hands, covering it intimate place.
At the same time, Terry became a member of the Creative Group Haus of Gaga, which is engaged in the creation of accessories, details, scenery and stage costumes for the singer Lady Gaga. In 2010, the photographer removed the pop-diva for the covers of Vogue (in a meat dress from the designer Frank Fernandez) and Rolling Stone (in a suit from the Alejandro clip). He also took part in the video of his friend, musician and actor Jared Summer Hurricane.
A year later, the presentation of the Lady Gaga X Terry Richardson book was held, in which 350 color and black and white photographs of the performers made by Richardson were presented. Preparation for the release of the photo album was for 10 months - all this time the man accompanied Gaga everywhere - at concerts and behind the scenes, in the hotel and houses, in airplanes and clubs.
Being a talented clipmaker, Terry created the most successful music video Pop singer Miley Cyrus on the composition Wrecking Ball. In the frame, a completely naked girl is depicted riding a bowl for the demolition of the walls and a concrete slave breaking hammer. Over the first week after the release of the clip on YouTube, the number of views passed over 100 million, which is a record mark for the entire existence of video hosting.
In addition, Richardson is the creator of video clips for R.kelly and Lady Gaga on the song Do What U Want, Beyonce - Xo, Sky Ferreira - Red Lips, Whirlwind Heat - Purple. Terry cooperates and is friendly with a large number of celebrities, such as Madonna, Lindsay Lohan, Juliet Lewis, etc.
Personal life
The personal life of the scandalous photographer is not inferior to the protruding professional. In 1996, Terry Richardson married the Nikki model to Reli. Their union lasted 3 years - the girl fell ill with breast cancer, and the man began to lean on drugs, which led to the divorce.
The photographer had a relationship with another model and actress Shalom Harlow, then with a former assistant of the political figure Hillary Clinton and the civil servant Audrey Gelman. Their novel lasted 3 years, in 2013 a couple broke up.
After a year, Terry joined new relations with his long-standing assistant named Alexander Bolotov. On March 19, 2016, children were born children - twin boys. Roman and Rex. Spouses got married in 2017 in Taos, New Mexico City.
Terry Richardson now
Due to repeated accusations of models in the sexual harassment of the photographer during the filming Richardson, it is forbidden to cooperate with the best glossy magazines from around the world - Vanity Fair, GQ, Vogue, Glamor.
It is not yet known whether the boycott will be completed in 2019 or will last for an indefinite period.
Now a man spends a lot of time with his family, leads his microblog in "Instagram". Last professional photographs of Terry can be viewed on his official website.