2010/03/19

Being Terry Richardson

So it seems that happy trigger dick hanging Richardson is getting  opposition from some models about his whole "artistic" approach to photography.


"He takes girls who are young, manipulates them to take their clothes off and takes pictures of them they will be ashamed of. They are too afraid to say no because their agency booked them on the job and are too young to stand up for themselves.


"His 'look' is girls who appear underage, abused, look like heroin addicts . . . I don't understand how anyone works with him."

"Supermodel Rie Rasmussen gave a furious tongue-lashing to fashion photographer Terry Richardson at a Paris fashion event and accused him of exploiting young models."


Richardson has become famous by being controversial, similarly to Mr Olivier Zahm. This absurd over the top sexual flamboyancy is part of their "scripted" fame platform. Most of the girls are probably in it for the fame too. I bet there is more than one teenager model that has regretted the "sexual scenes" he encouraged her to preform yet won't say it publicly.

But come on!

The whole fashion industry is about selling products through sex as a lifestyle. Most consumers react to this element.  Richardson and Zahm are simply freeloaders on such paradigm. Perhaps it 's all about misunderstood talent?! Nah, they are aware of the paradigm, they are only playing by the rules, when the rules is to break the rules.

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