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Terryworld (Taschen 25th Anniversary)
from: Taschen
List Price: $19.99Your Price: $13.59 You Save: $6.40 (32%)Prices subject to change.
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 770
EAN: 9783836501910
Format: Illustrated
ISBN: 3836501910
Label: Taschen
Manufacturer: Taschen
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: April 01, 2008
Publisher: Taschen
Studio: Taschen
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Revised edition at a new low price
Who took 1970's porn esthetic and made it fashion chic? Terry Richardson. Who made the trailer park trendy and the tractor hat de rigueur? Richardson again. Who's equally at home in Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Purple and Vice? Our boy Terry. Who uses his fashion money to fund an X-rated website? Yes, Richardson. And who can't resist getting his clothes off and jumping in front of his own lens? Well, that would be Terry Richardson as well.
Porn stars, supermodels, transsexuals, hillbillies, friends, pets, and celebrities all do for his lens what they'll do for no other. And if anyone ever wonders why they did it, just blame it on Terryworld, where taboos are null and void, and fashion finds sex a perfect fit.
Includes over 70 new photographs not featured in the original edition
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Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Don't waste your money on this bok!
This book is a waste of money and not worth the price, even though it is not that expensive. It's just a bunch of ugly, grotesque people that this guy photographed. Weird is a polite adjective to use.
leo44
Rating:  - Shocking
For many years, I've always taken an interest in photography whether if I were taking the pictures myself or just viewing another photographer's artwork. All I can say about Terry Richardson's photography is that it's amazing. And what makes it so amazing is it's shock value. It's very edgy, rough, progressive and it has a do what you feel sort of vibe to it as well. Great book!
Rating: - Terryworld: a masterpeice of smut
Not for everybody, be forewarned. If you have seen Terry's work before and find yourself craving a high dosage of trashy, sexually explicit and raw photography, this ones for you babe. Suck it in, and puke it up into the air while laying on your back, and let your own metaphorical vomit shower your filthy nude inner workings.
Great for the kids
-j
Rating: - BEST BUY of 2008 (and one of the best buy for 2004 too)......
HONEST, ENERGETIC, though totally unappetizing content sometimes, ALMOST PERFECT PHOTO COMPOSITION, winning other 'trend following' artist (Jergen Teller for example) by a mile! Somehow i've got a gut feeling mr richardson is going to be the picasso of this century.....a classic already!
Rating: - Terror-World!
Terry's world might be, hell, it's MEANT to be a little scary for alot of people! Not in the sense of depicting violence or even real depravity but rather in the near-apocalypitc vulgarity with which it depicts post modern-hedonism, where sexual pleasure is about as idealized as a Tijuana donkey-show.
A man, laying half-passed-out on a bed, is seen puking, Terry (who appears in many of his own photos) pulls a tampon string out of a woman's vagina with his teeth, a guy pisses into his own mouth--you get the picture. It's a garbage-world where all the turn-ons are trashy. It is strangely arousing inspite of the yuck factor, but whether that's because it's sexy or because I'm just so jaded I'm happy for anything that can jolt and shock my deadened nerves, is up for debate!
Jolts and shocks are what Terryworld is all about. Terryworld is to erotica what Hustler was to Playboy. It's flat-out raunch,but with a fashion photographer's sensibility, which is to say that it does have some artistic merit beyond its novelty value, calling to mind the "provacateur" advertising campaigns of recent years, of which Terry himself has often played a part. His situation-heavy portraits are Tarantino-like movie stills from a movie I'm not sure I want to see.
Which brings me to my point; In the end, after all the money's come in, all the heads have turned and all the word-of-mouth has been exhausted, what is the final value of shock?
Remember when you were fourteen and looking at your stolen copy of Hustler, you felt kind of sick at the end of the ride. Your heart rate increased as you turned each page, your curiosity peaked to see the next lurid spectacle, you flipped faster and faster until finally it was over, you'd seen the whole thing--More, in fact, than your mind was capable of processing in one sitting. You were late for dinner, had a pressure headache, and a faint desire to go to church.
Welcome to Terryworld.
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