. Bob Shell: Letters From Prison #25 . Letters by Bob Shell, Copyright 2018 . Photography by Tony Ward, Copyright 2018 . OLD AGE AND TAXES . Taxes: we all hate ’em, but we all pay ’em. Right? I’ve recently read an article about Sweden, where they’re getting rid of property taxes. They’ve reasoned … Read more
Early Work: The College Years 1974 – 1980 . Like many photographers during the mid-1970’s Tony Ward embraced the documentary tradition early on in his career and was very influenced by the images he saw in Life Magazine and other leading periodicals including TIME. He began to sharpen his photographic skills by photographing … Read more
Bob Shell: Letters From Prison #21 . Letters by Bob Shell, Copyright 2018 . WE ALL STEAL IDEAS . I’ve talked about Richard Lovelace and his famous Althea poem. There’s another poem from the same era that you have probably heard without realizing it. It begins: Once there was a way to get … Read more
Bob Shell: Letters From Prison #20 . Letters by Bob Shell, Copyright 2018 . STRANGE SIGNS . In my travels I always kept an eye open for interesting things to photograph. Sometimes it was people, sometimes animals, sometimes street scenes, and so on. One thing I saw almost everywhere was signs, sometimes official, … Read more
Photography and Text by Tony Ward, Copyright 2018 . 38 HOLSTERED . Back in the early 90’s, my wife and I were visiting friends at a party in Vineland, New Jersey, about an hours drive from our studio in center city Philadelphia when my cell phone rang. It was a neighbor in our building … Read more