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Brittany Unveiled

Posted on January 15, 2011

…………The studio is pleased to introduce Brittany Reese, a new TWS model. Brittany is an absolute pleasure to work with, and a natural born actress in front of the camera: warm, intelligent, alluring, friendly and erotic. Ms. Reese is very well proportioned and is available for bookings through the studio. Contact TW for availability and rates at tony@tonyward.com.

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Model Of The Month

In My Body

Posted on December 27, 2010

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……….As I walked through the crowded opening at the Wexler Gallery in Philadelphia, I noticed several models that were familiar to the Studio, but depicted in a way uniquely imagined by the gifted mixed media artist Leah MacDonald. A 20 year retrospective exhibition of her work is in its last week at the Old City gallery located at 201 North Third Street. I highly recommend seeing the exhibit before it closes on December 31, 2010. To learn more about Leah Macdonald’s work log on to www.LeahMacdonald.com.

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Brittany Veiled With Mask: December 11, 2010

Posted on November 14, 2010

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……….The studio is pleased to announce the unveiling of a new series of pictures of TWS model Brittany Reese. The aspiring 21 year old glamour model from Bellfonte, Pa. was approved for a test shoot recently. We are very pleased with the initial rough edit from the sitting and are looking forward to posting the final results of the production very soon………stay in touch!

Tara: Sketch 1- Wearing Slip

Posted On December 2, 2010

………One of the intangibles about finding new subjects to photograph, is that its virtually impossible to assume where the next model will come from. I was in Philly walking down 18th street near Sansom, when I noticed a new coffee shop. The building was very attractively remodeled, enough so that I decided to try a cup of coffee to peruse the inside. At the counter, I noticed a short haired-young blondish woman with the middle of her lower lip pierced.

Tara: Sketch 2 - Tease With Slip

We struck an immediate accord and began to talk about art and photography. Within a few minutes she passed along a torn piece of paper with her name and phone number on it. I left the place with a delicious cup of coffee and an invitation to photograph her at her apartment as soon our schedules would permit.

Tara: Sketch 3 - Reclining Pose Bedroom

A few days later I arrived at her apartment in West Philadelphia. She shared the apartment with a roommate and suggested to insure complete privacy that we photograph in her bedroom; a charming place, clean, neat and modestly decorated. Trust was immediately established between the two of us, so I proceeded to take a few test shots or sketches, as I prefer to call the type of sitting that ensued.

Tara: Sketch 4 - Removal Of Slip

Tara: Sketch 5 - Rear View

She was completely at ease, exuding confidence in her body and inner self esteem.

Tara: Sketch 6 - Unshaved

Tara: Sketch 7 - Rear Torso

Tom At the Voting Booth 1976

Posted by Tom Nelson on 8-10-10
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My name is Tom Nelson, and I was Tony Ward’s first model during his college days in the mid 70′s. We met initially in 1974, when Tony lived in an apartment complex in Millersville, PA, while he was an undergraduate student at Millersville State College. We became close friends. After Tony graduated from Millersville State, he moved on to graduate school at The Rochester Institute of Techonolgy where he was trained to become a professional photographer at the beginning of the 80′s. At that time we reunited and I became his butler for he and his second wife, who Tony met while he was employed as a corporate photographer for Smithkline Corporation. In the early 1990s, while TW started to raise a family, I doubled as a babysitter and part time cook for the three children, during his many frequent trips abroad.

Tom As The Intellectual

In the spring of 1976, I first posed for TW, at random locations on Millersville property. At that time I was barred from Millersville campus due to violating a ban on prospective dissidents because of my political views at the time. However the fact that voting machine’s for my precinct were installed on campus, I was allowed access to the campus to vote where Tony took his first photo of me exiting the voting booth at the student union center. This was during the Pennsylvania Presidential primary election that pushed then Governor Jimmy Carter over the top for the presidential nomination. Later for his senior show in the Spring of 1977, Tony wrapped me up in a sheet and smuggled me back onto campus to attend his first student art exhibition.

Tom And The New York Times, December 1976

In December of 1976, Tony and I undertook his first major attempt at a costume photographic session, which was a precursor of his later highly acclaimed book entitled Tableaux Vivants. I dressed in black leotards, and with my favorite read the New York Times, Tony shot me at various locations at the Landis Valley Farm Museum in Lancaster, Pa., where I was working as a janitor. The New York Times was not effective as a prop, but the results otherwise were magnificent! The resulting photographs in the Landis Valley Museum’s schoolhouse, carefully preserved by Tony Ward, provides testimony to his great photographic abilities that would emerge in his later works.

Casting Photo One

……….Layla and I met at Club NL, an Amsterdam hipster lounge packed with young beautiful people who enjoy the Dutch night life.

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She apparently was already familiar with my work and asked if I would be interested in casting her for one of my shoot’s.

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She stopped by the apartment a few days later for a few candid shots………..

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On Location Ibiza

……….As soon as my producer Suzaan Talib spotted her on the beach, I knew that she would approach the dark skinned brazilian beauty. Suzy never minced words when scouting for models. She just has a way with people that is very forthright, honest and convincing.

Suzy wandered over to where Cindy was set up on the beach, just yards away from our location. Within minutes she returned to introduce us, a lovely woman from South America who was visiting Ibiza on holiday.

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The next day I arranged to take photos of Cindy at Bambuddha Grove, a lovely restaurant and lounge just outside the center of town.

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She was quite the exhibitionist, very quickly removing her clothes and accesssories one article at a time.

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