Terry Richardson Hysteric Glamour

Richardson, Terry. MANIMAL Deluxe Edition With Original Color Print. Tokyo, Japan: Hysteric Glamour, 2006.
Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. As New. Artist Book. Deluxe Edition of 100 titled and signed copies. Should not be confused with the more common Limited Edition of 700 copies. A brilliant production by Terry Richardson, Wataya Osamu, and Hara Koichi: Oversize-volume format in wide oblong shape. Pristine-white silk cloth boards with photographic reproductions in front and on the back, as issued. Photographs by Terry Richardson. There is no text. 5 X 8 inch original archival color print encased in its own glossy pictorial folder. Printed on thick glossy stock paper in Tokyo, Japan to the very highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Presents Terry Richardson's most recent sex pictures, all of them of the most explicit kind, not for the prudish, squeamish or "discriminating". Richardson just keeps on pushing the envelope: Some (though not all) of the images directly or indirectly parody, if that is the right word, the notorious Abu Ghraib Prison photographs (2004) , in which American soldiers humiliated and tortured their Iraqi captives by resorting to both actual (rape) and simulated (photographed) sex. Imitating one of the single most disturbing Abu Ghraib pictures, Terry himself performs oral sex on a man wearing a paper mask. Terry Richardson's point has always been about our hypocrisy about sex whereas the full story of Abu Ghraib has yet to be told: Seymour Hersh of The New York Times is writing a book on it, and Susan Sontag's last published essay was about it, "Regarding The Torture of Others". What has been reported so far was disturbing enough to elicit the first calls that Donald Rumsfeld be fired: Dogs snarling at cowering naked prisoners, Iraqi women forced to expose their breasts, prisoners forced to have sex with each other, US military guards having sex in front of prisoners, and American soldiers sodomizing Iraqi boys. No one questions that all of these acts were offensive and criminal. Are Terry Richardson's replications of them offensive and criminal, too? Sontag's essay offered a perceptive reply: Abu Ghraib happened because Americans have engaged in depraved and voyeuristic (photographed and filmed) sex for a very long time, that the entire episode was American sexual culture exported. The soldiers were doing what Paris Hilton was proud of doing, and their real crime was not sexual but political, as all-powerful occupiers of a foreign country. In that larger context, Sontag argued that it is disingenuous to single out any one photographer or artist for criticism because all images are constantly recycled by the culture. One could even argue that by producing a Book of Sexual Depravities, Terry Richardson is forcing his fellow Americans to confront, rather than deny, the pathetic truth of their lives. Man-as-animal indeed. A "must-have" title for Terry Richardson collectors. <b><i> This copy is very prominently titled and signed in black marker on the title page by Terry Richardson. It comes with an original archival color print, also prominently and beautifully signed in black fountain pen on verso by the photographer. This edition sold out upon publication in Japan. No copies were commerciall y distributed in the United States. This is the only copy of the Deluxe Edition available online and has no flaws, a pristine beauty. A rare signed copy thus. </b></i> 75 color plates. Terry Richardson's "Hysteric Glamour" was selected as one of the greatest photography books in "The Photobook". One of the finest living photographers. A flawless collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER TERRY RICHARDSON TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). Signed..

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Richardson, Terry (Photographer) & McWhinnie, John (Contributor). TERRY RICHARDSON: FTW Signed Limited Edition. East Hampton, NY: JMc & GHB Editions, 2006.
Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. As New. Exhibition catalog presented as an Artist Book. Limited Edition of 50 numbered and signed copies. Should not be confused with the much larger edition of 1000 copies. A brilliant production by Terry Richardson and Buero New York: Oversize-volume format. Pictorial hard boards with black titles embossed on the cover, as issued. The cover design is a dazzling collage of visual images and texts from the 1980's. Photographs by Terry Richardson. Except for a brief Essay by John McWhinnie, there is no text. Printed on thick coated stock paper in the United States to the very highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name held at Glenn Horowitz Bookseller East Hampton in August 2006. Presents some of the earliest photographs taken by Terry Richardson. Growing Up Absurd in California, Richardson has captured his adolescence in a collection that is beautifully presented as an album of pictures "worth 999 words". "We're born. We die. In between there's school and work. When you are a teenager that's an adult truth you learn with your skin, whether you ink, scab or score it" (John McWhinnie). It is a prototypically American adolescence, marked by a barely concealed anxiety about the future, characterized by escape and letting go, and lived entirely with the attitude that are the book's initialled title: "Fuck The World". One has no control over one's childhood. One begins to make choices as a teenager, mainly choosing to postpone the inevitable responsibilities of being an adult. Adolescence is not a preparation for adulthood nor is it merely a phase. Terry Richardson shows that it is a period of negative epiphany, but epiphany nonetheless. The rest is life-as-usual. The photographs are sexy, but not sexually explicit. Unlike Larry Clark's re-stagings of his adolescence (using other teenagers as models in order to recreate his own), Richardson's photographs are the real thing, and that is what makes them so affecting. As we go through the album, Terry and his gang grow on us and become appealing before our eyes. While most of us took lots of pictures of our youth, we gradually and then finally lost them over time. Richardson has kept his treasure trove after all these years. Here they are, in his most autobiographical and most (surprisingly) moving collection thus far. A "must-have" title for Terry Richardson collectors. <b><i> This copy is one of a Limited Edition, indicated as such on the Back Limitation Page, and is very prominently and beautifully signed in black marker by Terry Richardson. It is also prominently and beautifully signed in black fountain pen by John McWhinnie. This edition sold out shortly after publication and is now highly collectible. This is the only copy of the Signed Limited Edition available online, and has no flaws, a pristine beauty. A rare signed copy thus. </b></i> 98 plates. Terry Richardson's "Hysteric Glamour" was selected as one of the greatest photography books in "The Photobook". One of the finest living photographers. A flawless collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER TERRY RICHARDSON, LARRY CLARK, JOSEPH STERLING'S "AGE OF ADOLESCENCE", AND JOSEPH SZABO'S "TEENAGE" TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0965402096. Signed by Author.

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