Terry Richardson spent the best part of a year with Lady Gaga on her Monster Ball Tour and captured everything in that time; the concerts, Lady Gaga working on her Born This Way album, various music award shows and her gay rights speech in Washington.I'll go ahead and warn you all now; LADY GAGA X is a photography book, so photos are what you get. So looking at the book with that in mind I'm pleased. There are over 450 black/white and full colour photographs, in a good mixture of posed and candid shots. When I say candid, I mean candid - no makeup or wigs, when she's brushing her teeth and hooked up to a IV drip. The photos don't appear to have been retouched either - on one photo you can see that Lady Gaga's fake tan is a bit streaky and on other pics her lipstick is smudged. What could have made this book better would be if Terry had included some notes to accompany the photos; loads of the pics show Lady Gaga stood next to unfamiliar faces, so those photos have no impact on me. She is crying in several photos. Happy tears? Was she unwell? One photo shows her onstage with a girl talking into a microphone. Who is the girl? What was she talking about?I've just bought my copy from a discount bookshop [The Works] for £7.99 and for the money have no real complaints, but if I'd paid the full RRP [£35] I'd be very unhappy with the complete lack of text and would give LADY GAGA X three stars. I think this an adventurous book documenting via photographs, by the brilliant Terry Richardson, of Lady Gaga doing what she does best. The pictures are Gaga being Gaga, not conforming to what pop culture is supposed to be, but what she believes it is. It is a must have, quite a collectors piece and a beautiful window into Lady Gaga's day to day lifestyle. A lifestyle that will leave you wanting more and waiting to see what the future has in store for this iconic muse and this legendary photographer.
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This book contains fascinating photos and information about Mother Monster.
—Nakht45
A million pics of Gaga in her underwear. Random!!
—Sam
