Mom, Dad, and Terry
Celebrating Richardson's New Photography Show
Terry Richardson isn't known for his family-friendly style of photography. So if Friday night found the lensman in a more reflective mood, it was because his new solo show at the Half Gallery, titled Mom Dad had just opened. A bevy of close friends and plaid-clad doppelgängers crammed into the small Lower East Side space to see Richardson's images of his parents, who split when he was four, brought together in a terse body of work.
"It's really personal," the photographer said at his celebratory dinner at ACME on Great Jones Street, which was recently bought by the people behind Indochine. "I'm happy the way it turned out." From the way the likes of Neville Wakefield, China Chow, Cynthia Rowley, and Lindsey Wixson were enjoying themselves over a family style dinner of baby beet salad, Arctic char, and chicken breast, they were too.
The talk of the evening was the upcoming Art Basel Miami festivities. Dustin Yellin was still on the fence about attending, but not Richard Phillips. The painter did some advance PR about a dinner he's hosting there with up-and-coming music darling and fellow guest Venus X. Just before the DJ with the bright turquoise hair skipped out to prep for her set at Richardson's Westway after-party, Stuart Parr hopped on the bar, stripped off his shirt, and did an impromptu dance performance. The man of the hour, meanwhile, was so thick in a conversation with a late-arriving Ke$ha, he barely glanced up.
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