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Tony
Ward
Tony
Ward's photographic imagery unites his primal love, erotic art, with his
perennial passions for fashion, design, and portraiture. Ward achieved
global notoriety with his first book of erotic photography, the
controversial and highly praised Obsessions
(Editions Stemmle, Zurich, 1997). Obsessions
was followed by three even more challenging, innovative, and
critically acclaimed volumes: Orgasm
(Alixe, Paris, 2000), Tableaux
Vivants (Stemmle, 2002) and Orgasm
XL (Alixe, 2002). Prominent academics such as A.D. Coleman, Rick
Wester, Reinhold Misselbeck, and George Pitts have written illuminating
essays that accompany these editions.
Ward's fine art is widely collected, and he exhibits in galleries in
America, Europe and Asia. Just as the audience for his sensual reflections
is decidedly international, so his search for provocative new subjects
necessitates constant worldwide travel. Ward makes his home in the
historic heart of old Philadelphia, but his unending quest for inspiring
imagery compels him to divide his creative time between diverse
cosmopolitan centers from Los Angeles and Miami to Amsterdam and Hamburg,
with extensive layovers in New York, London, Paris; and upcoming
excursions to Prague and Budapest.
Ward's graphic meditations on his favorite themes, style, fashion and
human sexuality, are both groundbreaking and accessible. His work has been
published in vanguard fashion magazines such as Spoon. Fashion and
portraiture have been an intregal part of Wardís repertoire. Prestigious
magazines such as Style Monte-Carlo and German GQ are publishing Ward's
fashion pictorials.
Ward continues to enhance and redefine his vision while constantly
exploring the creative potential of other media as well, from classical
hand-crafted collage, video, and the Internet. Tony Ward was born in
Philadelphia. He attained a Master of Fine Arts degree from The Rochester
Institute of Technology. He lives in Philadelphia with his wife and
business partner Sandy, and their three children.
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