Close Ups: 1990’s

    Photography and Text by Tony Ward, Copyright 2020 Close Up’s: 1990’s . During the early 1990’s, I purchased what would eventually become an indispensable piece of equipment for my portrait photography, the ring flash.  This unique flash lamp that creates shadowless light on a subjects face at close range intrigued me from the … Read more

Studio News: Recent Vintage Print Sales

STUDIO NEWS: A pair of limited edition vintage prints from the archives of Tony Ward have been purchased for $5500.00 by a wine connoisseur based in Geneva, Switzerland. Caress. New York, 1997, a vintage gelatin silver print in the size of 16 x 20 recently sold for $3000.00.  Surrogate. New York, 1997, was sold for … Read more

Bob Shell: Political Correctness

  Text by Bob Shell, Copyright 2019 Political Correctness . I’ve never been a particularly politically correct person. I’ve lived my life my way, caring little for the prevailing winds of intellectual fashion. Today I learned of something that really takes the cake as far as PC nonsense is concerned. We’ve all seen the famous … Read more

Bob Shell: America’s Puritanism

  Text by Bob Shell, Copyright 2019 America’s Puritanism . “Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.” — Benjamin Franklin Franklin, along with the others who founded this country, was very smart. He realized that government, any government, would likely … Read more