It’s just time for the prevailing fashion photographers to catch up. Focus: The Sexy, Secret, Sometimes Sordid World of Fashion PhotographersBy Michael GrossAtria416 pp; $37Depending on how you look at it, 2013 was either a very good or very bad year for fashion photographer Terry Richardson. By the time we catch up to Terry Richardson, I’m exhausted. Above all, Focus is a survey of men behaving badly: in an industry so dominated by women and gay men, photography allows for traditional machismo to thrive. Much later in the book, photographer Mike Reinhardt is quoted as saying, “Models are prepared, in many cases, to f—k for work.” Gross doesn’t touch this comment.

Source: National Post July 11, 2016 15:33 UTC