Terry Richardson's Friends Are Cooler Than Yours

by BILLY GRAY · January 12, 2010

    Good news for those of us losers whose exposure to the work of  Terry Richardson, the hipster/model/beautiful people photographer extraordinaire, has been limited to browsing coffee tables books we couldn't afford at The Strand: his Tumblr "diary" is gratis and dripping with cool kids.

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    Check out all the scenesters Terry knows (and refers to on a first name basis):

    Here we have models Daria Werbowy and Agyness Deyn taking rare, semi-candid (OK, not really) shots:

    There's the Jersey boy, Jon Bon Jovi and heifer, Rachel Zoe who made good:

    There are friends-of-Tina Fey Amy Poehler and Lindsay Lohan (oops, I meant Terry's mom).

    There's a Christmas photo from Lindsay and Dina Lohan (who look to be approaching the point in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button where Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett were briefly the same age):

    And married (or not) couple Marc Jacobs and Lorenzo Martone:

    Best of all, we've got NYC's favorite crazed badass director Abel Ferrara:

    Talk about friends in high (in so many ways) places. It makes us think Richardson could steal a line from John Lennon and proclaim himself bigger than this guy: