The lovely man above is Terry Richardson, a famed photographer who's signature aesthetic is raw, hard flash, no makeup, and often too close for comfort. He's most famous, in my mind, for his Rolling Stone cover and spread with the Gossip Girl cast early last year. He does various work for magazines and his own pleasure, with a hint of perversion I'm not to fond of. But what really catches everyone's eye is how raw his photos are; you feel as if you're seeing the deepest side of the subject. That, and there's something so provocative about his photos, kind of in a basement-porn way... not that I know anything about that.

The following are photos of shoes he was using on a recent shoot. They consist of the pod shoes from McQueen and were posted yesterday on his photo blog, www.terrysdiary.com. Check it out if your bored, but be warned, some photos are NSFW. My fav are the blue McQueen shoes and what's best is you can see every contour and detail which makes me fawn over them even more.