Terry Richardson - Photographer

[BerlinRocks]

^my two cents on that - though i think you're questioning too far ...
the legs are opened, coz well ... that's Terry and he needs sex on his photo ...

erin poses this way, i guess, coz they thought it was the best thing to do to show the thigh high boots with this dress (you just wonder why they've chosen this dress with those boots, though ... coz obviously you would have known the long dress won't show the boots if shot stand up. i would have styled these boots with the grey coat. but anyway ...)
the bouquet obviously is for the wedding part of this image ... like the married woman send it to erin ... but she obviously isn't really into getting married ... she's a rock n roll young star woman ... free with no stable man !
on a sort of video neon box ? because it's trendy (for them. since it's no more trendy since the late 1990s, at least)

* loverdariafreja my battery is getting charged ... it's taking time, sorry ! *

Ughhhh why doesnt terry never give some explaination on his images!!!?? He should write little essays or something hes a genius like Nick Knight & Irving Penn.

i guess because it makes no sense for someone who wanted to decomplexify the fashion photography ...
make it less tight up ... glamour in the "instantenous motion" and nothing more ...

 

[tigerrouge]

^my two cents on that - though i think you're questioning too far ...

I agree - and for me, there's not much happening in that image that's a fresh twist on anything, in my eyes, there's not much to be interpreted over and above a madonna/wh*re representation, where a virginal bride in white also shows a dark side - claws of blood and boots of leather. The two sides exist in the one woman.

However, it sounds like the image really speaks to you. Your enthusiasm for the picture is far more interesting than the picture itself.

 

[BerlinRocks]

Purple Fashion, vol. III, n° 10, FW 2008-2009, p. 338-344
"Terry Richardson's Life Story, ep. one, From Birth to the Age of Four"


- snapped by berlinrocks -

However, it sounds like the image really speaks to you. Your enthusiasm for the picture is far more interesting than the picture itself.

same thought !

oh and if i can add something else : i just hate the way they print that shot, while the shoulder is completely bad, full of pleats ! it's obvious they wanted to show so much details of that look (thigh high boots, length of the dress and the puffy shoulders). i would have chosen a sitten (seated ? sorry) pose ... but that was probably the opposite way of their direction ...

 

[FashionTopFace]

To Berlin rocks

Thanks! But I dont believe that they leave the black boots to cioncidence it DOES signify something obviously and that tiara of course also.

You CAN see that the bouquet looks like a phallus AND a vagina combined together right? it IS intercourse as much as it is marriage intercourse. she IS already married this is after her marriage. Show me one sign that she is not married yet and didnt sleep with the husband. Cause I can show many signs of the opposide. and to me the red has that double meaning. Damn genius artists! ha keep challenging our minds its hysterical I love it!

Id love to have more analysis on that image from others too!!!! ps could someone post the last part of his interview in the new issue xoxo

 

[FashionTopFace]

to tigerrouge yeah youre so right just read this: "a madonna/wh*re representation, where a virginal bride in white also shows a dark side - claws of blood and boots of leather. The two sides exist in the one woman."


However why would one choose to represent that? and what has it got to do with self exposure and with the entire story. I would like more analysis on this image from others .

haha no nothing personal, I just love analysing art and literature when something is challenging i love it its like a puzzle!!!

 

[tigerrouge]

Well, it is said that some men have an obsession with the idea of madonna/wh*re, so we could say that perhaps this male photographer is exploring his own ideas and feelings by having the model dress up in this way. If so, it doesn't appear to be a very complex exploration of the theme.

Because Erin Wasson usually dresses in a tomboy style in real life, I wonder if it was amusing for her to dress up as this 'demon bride' for this shoot, and whether any of the dark elements came from her own suggestion.

 

[Alien Sex Friend]

http://img40.imagehaven.net/img.php?id=FXNGPP2APV_17_5B1_5D.jpg

Could somone translate this image to me? Maybe there are some phptpgraphers out there or art students who could help me. its so multi layered its imagery its so multi interpretable!!! I LOVE IT!!! I think thats definitely the best one of the campain its real art.

I wonder what the tiara has to do with the bride with black boots and those blood red nails touching the tiara! I do get the red nails part which she is openly showing and the red and white imagery but i dont get the tiara part. The freakiest best thing is her bouquet!!! Which looks like intercourse like marrying a virgin bride, the red and white and the way the bouquet looks like. But why is she like on top of that bouquet like she controls it and or shows it??? Also i dont get why her legs are all black what does that symbolize? Those black legs do deconstruct the entire romance of the picture, black is a sinister color standing for death etc in methaphorical language but she seems not to be ashamed of showing her legs on the contarary she dominates something with them. Is she like a devil in sheep clothes? The red could also have two meanings either like dangerous femme fatale red or innocent virginal red on white. I really do not understand the black boots and the tiara imagery everything else i understand. Ughhhh why doesnt terry never give some explaination on his images!!!?? He should write little essays or something hes a genius like Nick Knight & Irving Penn.

just because he`s snap-shot photographer and, to be honest , im not seeing all this implied sense what you`re sloping over about. im sure what all shoot-team just decided what it looks okay and thats enought
yep, his shots have idea from time to time but not so deep and you`re surely adding too much symbolism to each detail of its simplicity. thats just about dissonance between that pseudo-wedding dress and her "bad" inside which peeps out through the white innocence

 

[b9409]

Well, it is said that some men have an obsession with the idea of madonna/wh*re, so we could say that perhaps this male photographer is exploring his own ideas and feelings by having the model dress up in this way. If so, it doesn't appear to be a very complex exploration of the theme.

Because Erin Wasson usually dresses in a tomboy style in real life, I wonder if it was amusing for her to dress up as this 'demon bride' for this shoot, and whether any of the dark elements came from her own suggestion.

I agree.

 

[BerlinRocks]

To Berlin rocks

Thanks! But I dont believe that they leave the black boots to cioncidence it DOES signify something obviously and that tiara of course also.

You CAN see that the bouquet looks like a phallus AND a vagina combined together right? it IS intercourse as much as it is marriage intercourse. she IS already married this is after her marriage. Show me one sign that she is not married yet and didnt sleep with the husband. Cause I can show many signs of the opposide. and to me the red has that double meaning. Damn genius artists! ha keep challenging our minds its hysterical I love it!

Id love to have more analysis on that image from others too!!!! ps could someone post the last part of his interview in the new issue xoxo

ahah ... of course there's nothing coincidence, this is a commercial (and this is not Guy Bourdin level !) ...
and i think i explained to you why i thought the boots were shown this way.
i think you're forgetting the styling part in the story, and too much focusing on certain (sexual, demoniac) details.

tiara means nothing to me ... but just some girls who play princess ...


one sign of erin character not being married ? THE ring ! where is the RING ?


and sincerely i think there's nothing to analyse there ... but what you already had in mind and are at the moment explaining ...
you've nailed it ... let it go and focus on other shots of Terry Richardson that are certainly more interesting ... than this bad commercial ... even the styling isn't rocking anything.

another thing for ya ? the triangle is often the sign for sex in fashion photography ... search the triangles on that shot, and you'll see you already have your analysis right

but that just my opinion after a long day ...

 

[Alien Sex Friend]

Barney`s NY f/w 2009

Anja Rubik, Catherine McNeil, Suvi Maria Koponen by Terry Richardson








extracted by me from Barneys.com​

 

[Alien Sex Friend]

same source​

 

[Alien Sex Friend]

that image is no longer working, so im re-posting



same source

 

[MON]

HOt Marlon shoot!

 

[LetThemEatCake]

Marlon's photos are the best. But I have no interest in any of the models in Barneys ads, so I am biased.

Erin Wasson is a thief and terrible model IMO.

From the Barneys NY ads I like the photo of Anja getting makeup touched up at Chanel counter...I think the photo of whomever she is-certainly ugly-(Suvi?)incorrectly holding a baby snow leopard is irresponsible.

 

[Elise1986]

regarding the pic of Cat and the little girl
it's like "bring along your kids when shopping ... in case you don't have anyone who carries your bags" you can barely see the kid behind those black shopping bags

i like most of the pics

 

[LuLover]

I refuse to believe that there is a delibrate psychology behind a Pinko ad. Honestly-she controls or owns the bouquet??? Metaphorical black boots???
I doubt that these are thought out moves-especially with Erin and Terry, who have a confortable working relationship-I bet she was just moving around, posing and doing her thing for the camera-Not considering the psychology of red nails touching the tiara!!!!

 

[loverdariafreja]

^ i agree.
sometimes we just read too much into people's work.
trying to give reason to everything.
sometimes i wonder if they had even actually gave so much thought abt it.
however, i also reckon that since they hadn't put so much thought into it, the pictures are actually streams of their subconsciousness.

and anyways, i reckon that a picture from an ad campaign isn't exactly a very good example to decipher as there are clients and marketing involved and i'm sure it still doesn't have as much freedom as an ed in a magazine would give.

 

[FashionTopFace]

Everyones entitled to their own interpretations it might not have anything to do with it at all maybe. I just say what think i see. like with poetry sometimes my professors say yeah youre right sometimes its just wrong!

I think the main thought or theme of this ad is about personal freedom, it seems to be based on the human transition from captivity to freedom. Its seems more so a freedom of the mind, which results in material freedoms, such as sexual, romantic, physical freedom, etc.

The character is a person with locks in her head. You can see that in the last picture she seems freed from the locks in her brain. The locks are represented by the chains around her arms and the internet wires, is she in a prison is she someone’s captive (the tattoo sign of former ownership of slaves) almost a slave or her own minds, is she an evil person or good is that why she is held captive? Does she have psychological strains in her head that prevent her from her from freeing herself and achieving her dreams?

The cage or prison bars on screen are gone in the last pic and the screen has reduced from its larger than life size but does she appear free…? Also what shes wearing in all the other pictures make her looks like a jailbird or a captive with the cuffs around her arms and all the black leather jackets make her look like a criminal or a prostitute with the tight red dresses wheres the last pic she looks like a princess or bride all dressed in virginal white.

She is married but refuses to wear a ring, she refuses to being bound to someone, being captive she is free now. In for instance pic 14 she does wear a ring however she rebels look how she wears the ring, not the conventional way its almost falling off her finger. Theres the question if she wears the ring in the last pic or she just doesn’t show it. She does look free but those black boots are like signals for bad things.

Theres also that monster on her t-shirt, she has the same red nails, the glittery clothes and dot on her face but that’s the only resemblance, is she like wearing shades because its an inner monster, its like in her head or is she really a monster? Then there are the internet wires everywhere also tying her up, like modern society and peoples internet and with its appearance obsessions. Does the larger than life self exposure give a sign of being slave to appearances of modern society?

There is much more to this ad, its highly psychological based and its interesting to hear others interpretations. I especially appreciate tiger rouge and berlin rocks brainy observations. I still have questions though. I think this is an intelligent visual reflection of our society and its leading to ego fulfilling things which only lead to isolation. These are just my observation Im not saying these are absolute at all! I do hope to see more well thought out visuality but its should always match the high standard of visual representation so I hope the brain behind the pictures is as intelligent as the great visuality and both should be in balance, like a Hitchcock movie!


Works Cited

Terry Richardson for Pinko A/W 09/10 Campaign
http://www.pinko.it/campagna/campaign.asp?LN=undefined

 

[LuLover]

Hmmmmm......I think that it is interesting that you address a character-the tattoo's and the way that Erin wears her rings are obviously personal? (The tattoo's are her own, the jewellery is her own)

 

[FashionTopFace]

whats this??? http://www.fibre2fashion.com/news/fashion-news/newsdetails.aspx?news_id=76558 and whats that background about?

Terry paying tribute to wacko jacko!!!! http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/52243,news,agyness-deyn-in-michael-jackson-fashion-tribute
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertai...eyn_pays_homage_to_michael_jackson_in_ha.html

Is Terry marrying Jen Brill? http://cyanatrendland.com/2009/09/02/terry-richardson-and-jen-brill-wedding-bells-approaching/