

Website: www.chadwicktyler.com
In the past twelve years he has ventured into projects ranging from artistic leadership of a photography festival, curatorial projects for various institutions worldwide, publishing books and a magazine, running a bookstore and gallery to creating the internationally acclaimed 500 Photographers project. He has done countless amounts of portfolio reviews, given masterclasses and judged a large number of competitions.
Due to the variety of endeavors and years of studying and speaking to photographers he quickly recognizes the features he believes to be of the utmost importance to be a successful photographer in this day and age.
2 comments:
Looks like dark side of Helmut Newton
I'm not so sure that these photographs "challenge[d] contemporary notions of beauty" so much as they reaffirmed them. Even in contrast to the fresh faced images of pin-up's like Farrah Fawcett, these women are still obviously beautiful. The only thing not conventionally beautiful about the women might be the grime on their faces and some of their more 'grotesque' poses or emotions...but then that's more a challenge toward conventional ideas of beautiful images and emotions, not beautiful women.
Perhaps that's the point--not that these photos challenge the ideas of a beautiful woman, but the concept of what actions or emotions can be beautiful? I get that this is supposed to make us think about how the exposed spectrum of emotions are beautiful because they are moving, not because they are fluffy, sunny, or sexy, but either way, grime and catatonic stares aside, these women are not a break from the norm of beauty as understood in the 70s or today.
That being said, these photographs are indeed raw and eye catching.
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