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Lady Gaga X Terry Richardson is a photo book by Lady Gaga and photographer Terry Richardson. It was released on November 22, 2011 by Grand Central Publishing. The book consists of photos (in black-and-white and in color) that Richardson took of Gaga during a 46 days period, ranging from Gaga's performance at Lollapalooza on August 6, 2010 to the final show of her Monster Ball Tour in Mexico on May 6, 2011. More than 100,000 pictures were taken during the time period, with over 365 appearing in the book, which features a foreword written by Gaga.

In February of 2012, The Ellen DeGeneres Show put for auction a signed copy of the book with the proceed going to one of Ellen's favorite charities, The Gentle Barn.

Background

On September 8, 2010, Gaga revealed that the two had teamed up again to work on a "Monster Ball Tour Book".

“	[Terry] wanted to do a book about the 'Monster Ball.'He wanted to shoot me backstage, not onstage, and look at who I am offstage. He's on the bus with me. He just follows me everywhere. He'll photograph me when I'm changing - those quick changes during the show. And sometimes I'll have to pee during the show, and I'm always screaming, 'Terry, get out!' And he'll be saying, 'It's so beautiful. You're so punk!' If only my fans knew I was peeing in a beer cup backstage.	”
—Lady Gaga

Lady Gaga x Terry Richardson

Publication date	November 22, 2011 (1st ed.)
Publisher	Grand Central Publishing
Country	United States
Pages	360
Size	10 1/4" x 12 3/4"
ISBN	978-1455513895

1st Edition

Foreword: Terry and Me

Gaga reading the foreword.
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Sometimes it seems as though I've waited my entire life to be photographed by Terry Richardson. With Terry, the relationship extends beyond the photograph, and if you're really lucky he will teach you something truly profound about yourself. I have discovered through him that "shame" is an obsolete notion and "apology" is an injustice to any performance. Perhaps it is his kind eyes behind those famous glasses, or the giggling noise he makes at 4:0 in the morning when he's caught me in bed. Click, giggle, click, click, click, "beautiful". To say he is a free spirit is a tremendous understatement, and to say that he (or I) make people uncomfortable, is spot on. We share these things that there are no limitations. At all. His heart is too wide. He makes me want to widen my own.

Terry finds beauty in the most intricate and unassuming of places. His photography beckons the question over and over gain: Should there ever be limitations in art? Because when he captures me in a moment of such tandem artistic and human purity, I am convinced the answer is that we must push the boundaries of culture through love and acceptance. There is no moment too strange, no angle unflattering, no circumstance relying on blind artifice, and never a time that I feel embarrassed or unsafe. Awakened in me is a perverse liberation, inspiring me to feel that it is okay to view yourself as hyper-human. That is how Terry views me.

I am so real, he says, that I am unreal.

Lady Gaga

Photographs

Dates and shows

Date	Location	City
Aug 6	Lollapalooza	Chicago,IL
Aug 11	Staples Center	Los Angeles, CA
Aug 12	Staples Center	Los Angeles, CA
Aug 13	MGM Grand	Las Vegas, NV
Aug 14	?
Aug 15	?
Aug 16	HP Pavilion at San Jose	San Jose, CA
Aug 17	HP Pavilion at San Jose
Aug 18	SJ Hotel
Aug19	Rose Garden	Portland, OR
Aug 20	?	Seatle, WA
Aug 21	?	Seatle, WA
Aug 21	Tacoma Dome	Tacoma, WA
Aug 23	General Motors Place	Vancouver, BC
Aug 24	General Motors Place	Vancouver, BC
Sep 3	?	Detroit, MI
Sep 4	The Palace Of Auburn Hills	Detroit, MI
Sep 6	?	Pittsburgh, PA
Sep 5	Consol Energy Center	Pittsburgh, PA
Sep 7	Verizon Center	Washington D.C., MD
Sep 8	John Paul Jones Arena	Charlottesville, VA
Sep 12	MTV Video Music Awards	Los Angeles, CA
Sep 16	XL Center	Hartford, CT
Sep 17	KISS Party	New York, NY
Sep 20	"For the 14,000" Rally	Portland, MN
Dec 10	Pavilhão Atlântico	Lisbon
Dec 11	?	Madrid
Dec 12	Palacio de Deportes	Madrid
Dec 16	The O2	London
Dec 17	The O2	London
Dec 18	?	Paris
Dec 19	?
Dec 20	?
Dec 20	Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy
Dec 21	Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy
Feb 11	Rehearsal Grammy Awards	Los Angeles, CA
Feb 12	Rehearsal Grammy Awards	Los Angeles, CA
Feb 13	53rd Grammy Awards
Feb 21	Madison Square Garden	New York, NY
Feb 22	Madison Square Garden	New York, NY
Mar 1	Van Andel Arena	Grand Rapids, MI
Mar 2	Mugler Fall/Winter 2011	Paris
Mar 3	Air Canada Centre	Toronto, ON
Mar 4	HSBC Arena	Buffalo, NY
May 5	Foro Sol	Mexico City
May 6	Foro Sol	Mexico City

Thank you's

Lady Gaga thanks:

Terry Richardson, Seth Goldfarb, David Swanson, Nick Sethi, Troy Carter, Vincent Herbert, Bobby Campbell and Lane Bentley

Terry Richardson thanks:

Lady Gaga, Glen Fabian, Alanna Gabin, Brad Holland, Bernie Yuman, Nicola Formichetti, Jennifer Rudolph Walsh, Andy McNicol, Eric Zohn, Jamie Raab, Ben Greenberg, Harry Bee, Raja Sethuraman, Magnus Andersson, Laxman Sethurama, Kelcy Alonzo, John Kohler, Art Partner

Lady Gaga and Terry Richardson also thank:

Lauren Ackert, Lonnie Adams, Jeff Adkisson, James Allen, Frederic Aspiras, Pauline Austin, Wayne Bacon, Amanda Balen, Lenyn Barahona, Leroy Bennett, Michelle Bernstein, Kimberly Brandon, Lanar "Kern" Brantley, Graham Breitenstein, Matt Bright, Ross Brown, Lisa Bruno, Kareem Devlin Byrne, Philip "Ky" Cabot, Andy Clark, Joya Cleveland, Dave Cockrell, Soozie Coll, Bill Compton, Jeff Condon, Kia Crawford, Molly d'Amour, Jason Danter, Adam Dragosin, Taneka Duggan, Sonja Durham, Philip Ealy, Douglas Eder, Montana Efaw, Dave Evans, Steve Fatone, Kurt Fetty, Ciaran Flaherty, Bill Flugan, Arthur Fogel, Terry Ford, Nicola Formichetti, Dan Gamble, Gil Gamboa, Rob Gardner, Marc Geiger, Laurieann Gibson, Michael Glazer, Don Gordon, Scott Grund, Dan Gurchik, Tony Hammonds, Vincent Asiel Hardison, Jason Harvey, Russ Heroux, Bob Hood, Carl Horahan, Eric Howard, Zeth Huckabay, Andre Hudson, Richard Huggins, Chevonne Ianuzzi, Richard Jackson, Sharon Jackson, Jimmy Johnston, Rashida Jolley, Ron "Bear" Jones, Mark Kanemura, Judy Kang, Brandon Kenney, Dan Klocker, Steve Kotzur, James La Marca, Cris Lepurage, Adam Lewis, Jason "Lew Lew" Lewis, Robert Liscio, Paul Lovell-Butt, Ed Majcina, Colleen Martin, Karl Martin, John Mars, Brandon Maxwell, George "Spanky" McCurdy, Craig McDonald, Matt McHale, Ian McKenzie, Perry Meek, Tom Mikita, Ramon Morales, Wendi Morris, Mo Morrison, Jasmine Morrow, Clavin "Mac" Mosier, Laura Murek, Sara Newkirk, Chris Organ, Charles Owens, Brockett Parons, Thomas Pead, Alexander Peters, Jared Petit, Bruno Petrilli, John Pierce, Wayne Pina, Kevin Premer, Brett Premer, Sloan-Taylor Rabinor, Bob Reetz, Bobby Reid, Errol Reinart, Bill Rengstil, Krystena Rice, John Richardson, Eddie Rodrigues, Victor Rojas, Susan Rosenberg, Stacey Saari, Javier Saldana, Ty Saunders, Tara Savelo, Mark Scrimshaw, Ray Seymour, Darren Shead, Lee Shull, Mike Sienkiewciz, Norm Sigal, Michael Silas, Tony Smith, Rick Sobkowiak, Andy Solomon, Laura Spratt, Mike Stamps, Clayton Stewart, Alisson Streuter, Kevin Szafreniec, Sarah Tanno, Rebecca Teal, Ryan Textor, Emily Thomas, Ricky Tillo, Anna Trevelyan, Florence Tse, Peter van der Veen, Rod Van Edgmond, Tony Villanueva, Chris Vineyard, Kenneth "Scotty" Walker, Horace Ward, Raegan Wexler, Marissa Willinsky, Joe "Flip" Wilson, Staci Yamano, Eric Zohn

Credits

Creative directors — Seth Goldfarb, Terry Richardson
Art director, retouching — Brian Ziegler
Layout, design and editing — David Swanson
Additional editing — Marcelo Seba, Nikki Tapa
Typography, jacket design — Catherine Casalino
Image proofing, color consultants — Gloss Studio, NYC

Release history

US / Canada — Grand Central Publishing
Germany — Goldmann
United Kingdom / Australia — Hodder & Stoughton
Japan — Nihon Bungeisha

Reference

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