Terry Smith
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| Gender | Male |
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| Occupation | Director & Photographer |
| Location | San Diego, CA, United States |
| Introduction | Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1962, Terry Smith grew up in a Christian home and sang in the church choir. The choir’s annual summer tour allowed him to travel the states, and helped to shape his understanding of the diverse cultures that exist throughout America. As a child Terry was drawn to everything ART! He would approach his coloring books as if they were a canvas, awaiting the stroke from the Artist's brush. While traveling with the choir in the summer, he'd take his Minolta 110 camera along to document these character building experiences. At age 16, while feeding starving orphans in Port Au Prince, Haiti, Terry photographed “innocents lost” and witnessed first hand the terrible affects of a dictatorial regime. As a teenager he would sketch mostly with a No. 2 pencil, it was usually images of ships, leafless trees and the human form. In his 20's, Terry's artwork became more surreal and experimental. Charcoal pencils and coarse papers were used, “replacing the coloring books” of his childhood. |
| Interests | Photography, Film making, Anthropology, Salvador Dali, Vincent Van Gogh, Walt Whitman, Andy Warhol, Herbert List, Will McBride, Bruce Weber, Richard Avedon, Versace, Fashion, Religion, World Peace, Music, The Perpetuation of Life, Leo Tolstoy, Marcel Duchamp, Social reform in America, End poverty...in America and throughout the World... |
| Favorite Movies | Chaplin, Eyes Wide Shut, What's eating Gilbert Grape, My Father's Glory, Book of Love, Boy A, Total Eclipse, Dead Poet's Society, Basquiat, Long Lost Son, Mister Foe, The Governess, The Jewish people, a Story of survival, They Shall have Music, Heifetz/Piatigorshky, KIDS, Streetwise, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Einstein Of Sex, ma mere, Homegrown, Dude Where's My Car?, All About Lily Chou-Chou, Food of Love, Wild Tigers I have Known, The Year My Parents Went on Vacation, dot the i, The Tallest Target, Breaking Away, Twilight Zone-the Movie, TRANSAMERICA, time to leave, Velvet Goldmine, Hollywood Canteen, Lust For Life, Spartacus, Seven days in May, Paths of Glory, City of God, Sabrina, flash of genius, Appaloosa, body of lies, Raising Victor Vargas, Basketball Diaries, The Brave One, Garcon Stupide, The Son, L.I.E., Murmur of the Heart, Highway, Into the Wild, Thirteen, Loggerheads, Remember the Titans, Iron Will, Running Scared, Lucky #Slevin, American History X, many more... |
| Favorite Music | Johnny Cash, Jimi Hendrix, Ray Charles, The Beatles, U2, REM, The Eagles, Kansas, TOOL, Wangner, Jascha Heifetz, and many others...Blues, Metal, Country, Jazz....etc.. |
| Favorite Books | What is Art? by Leo Tolstoy. Measure of a man. by MLK Jr. and just about any book on photography. Books with pictures, less to read. |