Loading...
Tyler Shields: Provocateur
Tyler Shields was born in Jacksonville, Florida and now recognised as “Hollywood’s favourite photographer”, LA based contemporary artist and filmmaker. Shi... more >> Imitate Modern presents 'Tyler Shields: Provocateur', celebrating the works of American artist Tyler Shields. For the first time, Tyler will be conducting an artist talk with fellow artist JD Miller discussing his beginnings, artistic process, and his pursuit of the perfect shot.
Tyler Shields was born in Jacksonville, Florida and now recognised as “Hollywood’s favourite photographer”, LA based contemporary artist and filmmaker. Shields’ technical brilliance as a has much more to do with the shift in focus from the fragility of the “celebrity photographer” to the output of the contemporary art medium. Most of the talented people who work with him include actors who are serious about their profession, but are not celebrities. People will go to him to make art rather than celebrity photography.
As an artist, Shields’ work and output has much more to do with the long-standing and perhaps transcendental clarity behind controlled subconscious image making in the vein of Caravaggio’s near photographic paintings in the 16th century, where rules and guidelines of the century were abandoned and/or re-incorporated to challenge the sensibilities of the time.
