Focus is the book. “Wow is the word,” says New York Social Diary. “Couldn’t-put-it-down.”
On today’s New York Social Diary, David Patrick Columbia covers the launch party for Focus (scroll down to the last long item here), the book itself, and the world it reveals. “Wine, women and song,” Columbia writes. “Boys too, if required. Not to mention drugs. Cool dudes, flashy cars, psycho-tempers, and sex everywhere to choose […]
“Fascinating insight,” says Musée Magazine. Focus is “a must.”
In Musée Magazine, Tal Yaron reviews Focus as “a behind-the-scenes view of fashion photography’s apex. Gross shows us the humanity or lack there-of in all these real life figures that he chooses to represent as the epitome of the art at its peak. Focus provides fascinating insight into the lives of these fashion icons [and] […]
Focus is “staggeringly impressive,” says Project Runway’s Tim Gunn on thethick.com
In the latest episode of the “Possible Conversation” series on thethick.com, Project Runway’s fashion eminence Tim Gunn and I dish on Focus, the fashion industry, and its fear of truth. Focus, says Gunn, is “captivating…electrifying…just riveting….a staggeringly impressive job.” A thousand thanks to Tim and all at thethick.
Focus: “astonishing and unprecedented” –Dailymail.com
The Daily Mail has just published a lavishly illustrated look into the pages of the just-published Focus. “In an astonishing and unprecedented look at the top-tier of photographers, Gross exposes the egos and private passions of these manipulative artists.” Focus is “compelling and often shocking,” says the Mail’s Caroline Howe. Thank you!!
Focus is (finally) on sale
Focus “uncovers a world of drama” and “the dirty secrets of fashion photographers,” says New York Mag
New York Magazine’s The Cut considers Focus today. Danielle Cohen writes, “Laying bare friendships, breakups, rivalries, and liaisons among fashion photographers over the past six decades, Focus delves into the stories behind their cameras, exposing both their unparalleled talents and private affairs.”
Pat & Mike at B&N: Come join the fun
I’ll be signing copies of Focus and dissecting the fashion circus with my longtime friend supermodel Pat Cleveland on July 13th at a talk moderated by former Vogue photographer Andrea Blanch, the founder and editor-in-chief of Musee Magazine. Please join us at 7PM that night at the Barnes & Noble at Broadway and West 82nd […]
“Bombshell tell-all,” says Daily Mail
Yesterday, the Daily Mail revealed that controversial photographer Terry Richardson had posted a photograph on Instagram of himself with his twin infant sons on the same day the New York Post published its exclusive excerpt from Focus about his own troubled childhood. The Mail suggests the image shows Richardson is “quite unfazed by reports” of […]
Focus is “shocking,” says Mail Online
MailOnline picked up the New York Post’s exclusive excerpt from Focus about the provovative photographer Terry Richardson “bizarre” childhood, his father, the late photographic great Bob Richardson, and his longtime muse and girlfriend Anjelica Huston. Bob and Anjelica both gave exclusive interviews that appear in Focus. (The image is a screen grab from the blog […]
Bill Cunningham as role model
I remember working beside Bill Cunningham in this piece for Time Magazine’s Lightbox. (My snapshot of Bill was taken circa 1992)