Photography and Text by Tony Ward, Copyright 2022
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Fashion Fetish: 2000 – 2020
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My personal work and research has been rooted in exploring the visual cross sections of fashion and erotic photography by capturing the impact the sexual revolution of the 1960’s had on advertising and in particular magazine publishing, prior to the evolution of digital capture. In my first book of film photography, Obsessions, published in 1998 with forward by A.D. Coleman was an exploration at challenging the lines drawn between art and obscenity by questioning social mores, existing laws, and the evolution of photographic imagery often viewed as inappropriate in some cultures and acceptable in others. In this series of pictures, I am particularly interested in intertwining the genres of fashion and fetish photography as a hybrid body of work.
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