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Tony Ward
ABOUT THE PUBLISHER
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Tony Ward’s photographic imagery unites his primal love, erotic art with his perennial passions for fashion, art and current events. Ward began his professional career as a corporate photographer for pharmaceutical giant Smithkline Corporation. After a four year stint at Smithkline – he opened the Tony Ward Studio which services a variety of Fortune 500 companies. TW achieved global notoriety for his first published book on erotic photography, the controversial and highly praised OBSESSIONS in 1998. The monograph was followed by four more challenging, innovative and critically acclaimed volumes on eroticism and photography at the turn of the century. Scholars that specialize in the history and aesthetics of photography: such as A.D. Coleman, Rick Wester and Reinhold Misselbeck have written illuminating essays that accompany the artist published works.
Ward’s fine art prints are widely collected, exhibited and syndicated around the world. He makes his home and studio in the historic heart of Philadelphia, but his unending quest for inspiring subjects and newsworthy posts compels him to divide his time between diverse cosmopolitan centers from Los Angeles, Miami, New York, London, Hamburg, Paris and his beloved Amsterdam. He turned his attention to Ivy League academia in the fall of 2010, where he began teaching Introduction to Photography at the University of Pennsylvania. In the fall of 2011, TW offered a new course, Photography and Fashion at Penn.
Graphic meditations on his favorite themes; Erotica and the application of sex in media compelled him to start a web magazine in August of 2009 with publishing partner Dan Brouse. Editorials about Tony Ward and his work have been published in numerous international popular culture magazines, books and television such as STERN, MAX, COSMOPOLITAN, PLAYBOY TV, PENTHOUSE, RTL TV GERMANY, TVA TELEVISION AMSTERDAM, GQ, PARK AVENUE, LOADED, VIBE, MEN’S HEALTH, STYLE MONTE CARLO, as well as avant-garde Dutch magazines BLEND, BLVD and LINK.
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The Tony Ward Studio welcomes your suggestions and comments. Email: media@tonywardstudio.com. Drawing of Tony Ward by Hungarian artist Krysta, Copyright 2009
Photo: Alejandra Guerrero - Los Angeles 2010
