Here was my post on an earlier thread today:
Here are some samples. Trite. And while "Historical Fiction" may deliberately include out-of-era elements, this is just bad.
About 20 years too late to be finding Mary-Manson-Warner "edgy" or relevant.
Posted on 05/30/2017 8:37:37 PM PDT by NohSpinZone
This level of success is surprising, given that a glance at his portfolio by anyone with even a cursory knowledge of the history of photography would reveal that a high number of his images look an awful lot like those of other photographers. And not obscure photographers, either. Many of his shots bear striking resemblances to the work of some of the most famous photographers of all time.
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Here was my post on an earlier thread today:
Here are some samples. Trite. And while "Historical Fiction" may deliberately include out-of-era elements, this is just bad.
About 20 years too late to be finding Mary-Manson-Warner "edgy" or relevant.
And before anyone says “but those look professional”, give him some film and the outcome would require more knowledge.
Point and shoot and you get a photo, in focus even if that’s a requirement.
To be “good” requires much more than “technical” competency.
Hundreds of films (videos really) are released to theaters every year. Even moviemakers who’ve made great films in the past (working with great screenwriters and great actors, etc.) don’t always end up with a SUCCESSFUL (good) film (not talking box office, talking the completed work). Clearly they have the skills to MAKE a good film, yet every film they make isn’t necessarily good or rewarding. So it is also with photos.
Ditto for musicians and albums.
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Tyler Shields is a very successful man. Often referred to as "Hollywood's favorite photographer," a 2012 GQ profile of Shields claimed that "while big-shot Hollywood producers once demanded a trophy Banksy canvas to be hanging above their faux-Spanish fireplaces, now all they want is one of Shields' gloriously twisted photographs." According to a rep for Guy Hepner, a gallery that sells Shields's work, his photographs sell for between $5,000 and $15,000. Shields himself has claimed that his work sells for as much as $175,000. He's shot a host of celebrities, including Lindsay Lohan, Aaron Paul, and Demi Lovato, and his work has been exhibited in galleries around the world...
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After Shepard Fairey became internationally famous for the Hopey-Changey posters based on another photog's pic of Obama, all sorts of hacks figure that's the way to the million dollar marxist gravy train.
His millionaire buddies in Hollywood will still slip him $10-50k for a print to hang over their bar during the present “occupation” of the White House.
What’s funny about that article is that several of the trite ideas, cliches, or to use the modern hipster word (a centuries old word) “tropes” he references in his photos were hack ideas even when other photographers cited in the article did it.
The author properly IDs Alfred Hitchcock as the mind behind the plane chasing someone in a cornfield.
The marble in a mouth (even on an album cover) was done by Brazilian recording artist Tom Ze (only that isn’t his mouth on the cover, no picture will be posted here, thank you).
Several people in the sixties had the person(s) falling down the side of a sanddune (I think Zifferelli did it and recall that Mickey Dolenz does it in Head).
Funny that he watermarks his images with his website.
The side-by-sides at the site would seem to be a pretty strong indication that he doesn’t have any original thoughts. It’s pretty overt. If he were to say something nice about Melania he would be outed in a day in all the press.
Very creepy character--perhaps dangerous in the right setting.
He’s not inspired or a copycat. He’s a sick ****.
So is that washed up ginger Kathy whatshername..
Lemme put it this way- it is NO different than a person who goes to the exact same locations as Ansel Adams and takes photos with the exact same equipment and then processes the photos in the exact same manner claiming he is an ‘artist’
Or someone copying Georgia O’Keefe’s flower paintings and claiming they are an artist-
While someone needs skill to replicate other people’s works=- they certainly are NOT originality and lack the creative genius of the original artists
Those who can create original thoughts ideas and concepts are successful artists, those who can’t copy and hope to get by on the tailcoats of masters
never heard of him
I think that Dali said:
The first man who compared a woman to a rose was obviously a poet and the second one to do so is an idiot.
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