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Michael Gross takes us on a compelling journey through a hugely desirable culture a culture which sometimes destroyed its most brilliant children and which is now slipping as irretrievably into the past as Versailles or the Swinging '60s. --Anthony Haden-Guest, author of Bad Dreams, True Colors, and The Last Party

Michael Gross's FOCUS is that rare thing: an equally delicious and deeply informative book, a news-breaking romp through the world of fashion photography, from its beginnings early in the last century to the recent controversial exploits of super bad boy Terry Richardson. Richard Avedon, Bert Stern, Deborah Turbeville, Helmut Newton, Steven Meisel: these and so many others whose work I've enjoyed in VOGUE and BAZAAR are given context and smart analysis, and magazine editors and owners appear, too, revealing an industry of art and commerce. An outstanding work of cultural history. --Sheila Weller, author of GIRLS LIKE US and THE NEWS SORORITY

FOCUS is the House of Cards of fashion. --Nino Cerruti I loved reading all the juicy details that Michael uncovered in this fast-paced and clearly insider look at the rarefied, sexy world of fashion photography. --Lauren Weisberger, author of The Devil Wears Prada and The Singles Game This is the best book on the real world of top photographers in the fashion industry ever. Having hired and worked with many of them covered in Michael's book I can tell you the back stories are mind blowing. Anyone remotely connected to fashion should read his book! --Barry Kieselstein-Cord, designer Hot dish. --Sherryl Connelly New York Daily News An often-shocking tale rife with bed-hopping hotties, rampant drug use and cut-throat antics. Gross knows his stuff, delving deep into the fascinating rivalries and wicked manipulations that take place behind the cameras. --Larry McShane The Daily News Wine, women and song. Boys too, if required. Not to mention drugs. Cool dudes, flashy cars, psycho-tempers, and sex everywhere to choose from. Work junkets all over the world and surrounded by beautiful people looking up at them rather than vice versa, The photographers were the real story. --David Patrick Columbia New York Social Diary Michael Gross takes us on a compelling journey through a hugely desirable culture--a culture which sometimes destroyed its most brilliant children and which is now slipping as irretrievably into the past as Versailles or the Swinging '60s. --Anthony Haden-Guest, author of Bad Dreams, True Colors, and The Last Party I loved reading all the juicy details that Michael uncovered in this fast-paced--and clearly insider--look at the rarefied, sexy world of fashion photography. --Lauren Weisberger, author of The Devil Wears Prada and The Singles Game This is the best book on the real world of top photographers in the fashion industry ever. Having hired and worked with many of them covered in Michael's book I can tell you the back stories are mind blowing. Anyone remotely connected to fashion should read his book! --Barry Kieselstein-Cord, designer Wine, women and song. Boys too, if required. Not to mention drugs. Cool dudes, flashy cars, psycho-tempers, and sex everywhere to choose from. Work junkets all over the world and surrounded by beautiful people looking up at them rather than vice versa, The photographers were the real story. --David Patrick Columbia New York Social Diary Does not skimp on the gossipy goods. There are descents into madness, prolific drug use, orgies, blackmail photos and suicide attempts...But this book...is also smart, well-researched and written with an insider's eye...engaging and on point. --Kim France New York Times Book Review Michael Gross's FOCUS is that rare thing: an equally delicious and deeply informative book, a news-breaking romp through the world of fashion photography, from its beginnings early in the last century to the recent controversial exploits of super bad boy Terry Richardson. Richard Avedon, Bert Stern, Deborah Turbeville, Helmut Newton, Steven Meisel: these and so many others whose work I've enjoyed in VOGUE and BAZAAR are given context and smart analysis, and magazine editors and owners appear, too, revealing an industry of art and commerce. An outstanding work of cultural history. --Sheila Weller, author of GIRLS LIKE US and THE NEWS SORORITY Amazing... a phantasmagoria of gossip, history, fabulous times, terrible times; the men (and a couple of women) who turned their creative lenses onto runways, clothes, models and (as in the case of Richard Avedon) onto America itself... If you love fashion and/or the art of photography, this book is for you. Focus gives us page after page of down and delicious dish... Gross captures the bizarre hot-house intensity of an industry that is both ever-changing but eternally the same... This is a big, intelligent, exhaustively researched, lovingly written book... Focus finds the fire beneath the ice of glossy magazine pages, and does it without burning down the house. --Liz Smith New York Social Diary Michael Gross's FOCUS is that rare thing: an equally delicious and deeply informative book, a news-breaking romp through the world of fashion photography, from its beginnings early in the last century to the recent controversial exploits of super bad boy Terry Richardson. Richard Avedon, Bert Stern, Deborah Turbeville, Helmut Newton, Steven Meisel: these and so many others whose work I've enjoyed in VOGUE and BAZAAR are given context and smart analysis, and magazine editors and owners appear, too, revealing an industry of art and commerce. An outstanding work of cultural history. --Sheila Weller, author of GIRLS LIKE US and THE NEWS SORORITY FOCUS is the House of Cards of fashion. --Nino Cerruti I thought I knew practically everything about the fashion industry, but Michael Gross has corrected me. His thoroughly absorbing narrative dazzles with the most profound investigation and research. Focus is an enthralling and riveting read! --Tim Gunn Advance Praise for Focus I thought I knew practically everything about the fashion industry, but Michael Gross has corrected me. His thoroughly absorbing narrative dazzles with the most profound investigation and research. Focus is an enthralling and riveting read! --Tim Gunn

FOCUS is the House of Cards of fashion. --Nino Cerruti

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Michael Gross is the author of the New York Times bestsellers House of Outrageous Fortune, 740 Park, and Model: The Ugly Business of Beautiful Women, as well as Rogues' Gallery, and Unreal Estate. A contributing editor of Departures, he created the blog Gripepad and has written for The New York Times, New York, Vanity Fair, Esquire, GQ, The Daily Beast/Newsweek, and many other publications. Official hashtag: #focusyourselfie Facebook: MichaelGrossAuthor Instagram: @FocusYourSelfie Twitter: MGrossGripepad

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