Forthose of you who ever wondered what kinky fashion photographer Terry Richardson wasdoing backstage at the Lady Gaga concert during the last minutes of the HBO special,"Lady Gaga Presents the Monster Ball: At Madison Square Garden," ARTINFO has ananswer. Grand Central Publishing has announced that it is releasing "Lady Gaga," abook unveiling never-before-released photographs of the pop phenomenon byRichardson, who also shot a Supreme ad campaign featuring the singer.
To be releasedNovember 22, the book will feature over 350 color and black-and-whitephotographs documenting the pop star's life over a 10-month period beginningwith Lollapalooza in August 2010 to the 2011 Grammies, to the final days of herMonster Ball tour this year. Even an account of the artist recording her inspirational hitsong "Born This Way" will be accounted in the book.
The provocativephotographer was allowed an all-access insider's view into Lady Gaga's everydaylife, with nothing off-limits. Richardson snapped more than 100,000 photographsduring that time, capturing an intimate side of the pop superstar that only afew know about — the bookpromises to feature "the most revelatory" of these images. Lady Gaga herself will write the forward.
Perhaps "LadyGaga" will make a new millennium mark on pop culture history the way Madonna'sseminal 1992 book "Sex," shot by Steven Meisel Studio and Fabien Baron, did inthe 1990s albeit without the slightly pornographic material. But thenagain, you never know what will happen with Richardson behind the lens.
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