{"id":7565,"date":"2016-06-26T16:43:37","date_gmt":"2016-06-26T23:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=7565"},"modified":"2016-07-01T16:48:08","modified_gmt":"2016-07-01T23:48:08","slug":"focus-the-secret-sexy-sometimes-sordid-world-of-fashion-photographers-by-michael-gross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2016\/06\/26\/focus-the-secret-sexy-sometimes-sordid-world-of-fashion-photographers-by-michael-gross\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Focus: The Secret, Sexy, Sometimes Sordid World of Fashion Photographers’ by Michael Gross"},"content":{"rendered":"

from The Daily Mail<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Group sex, a speed addiction and an affair with 18-year-old Anjelica Huston: The weird world of photographer Terry Richardson’s dad revealed in shocking new book<\/h1>\n

By\u00a0JAMES WILKINSON<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Dad:Dad: Terry Richardson is now a father himself, having had two kids – Rex and Roman – with girlfriend Alex Bolotow (left)<\/em><\/p>\n

Terry Richardson is the bad boy of fashion photography: his sexually explicit, in-your-face shoots – sometimes involving real sex acts – have earned him a following that includes Lady Gaga, Marc Jacobs and Yves Saint Laurent.<\/p>\n

He’s also been accused of pressuring models into sex by Danish model Rie Rasmussen, a claim he denies. But as controversial as his own career has been, it can’t hold a candle to his father’s.<\/p>\n

An amphetamine-addicted schizophrenic, Bob Richardson turned the world upside down for the fashion industry – and for young Terry, who was drawn into his disturbing world of group sex, hard drugs and violent outbursts.<\/p>\n

The startling story was revealed by the\u00a0NY Post<\/a>\u00a0Saturday\u00a0in an excerpt from ‘Focus: The Secret, Sexy, Sometimes Sordid World of Fashion Photographers’ by Michael Gross.<\/p>\n

Born in 1928 to a Catholic family in Long Island, New York, Richardson – initially a graphic designer – didn’t pick up a camera until 1963, when he was 35.<\/p>\n

But when he did, he went at the job hard, telling himself he had to become a ‘legend’ in the industry and injecting himself with amphetamine-laced vitamin supplements that would let him for for days at a time without sleeping.<\/p>\n

Fractious, arrogant, brilliant and driven, Richardson was infamous in the 1960s for causing a ruckus on sets, ruining clothing, going into tremendous outbursts and infuriating his clients.<\/p>\n

‘I\u2019m told you\u2019re a genius, but I don\u2019t see it,’ Charles Revson, owner of Revlon, told him one time.<\/p>\n

‘Get your eyes examined,’ Richardson barked at him.<\/p>\n

His arms bruised by needle tracks from self-administered amphetamine shots, Richardson shot glamorous models for Paris Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar, bringing a gritty rock ‘n’ roll ethos that was revolutionary at the time.<\/p>\n

But he pushed himself too far, working day and night in the grip of an ever-growing drug dependency.<\/p>\n

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