Tony Ward Studio specializes in Portrait, Fashion and Web Publishing. Tony Ward is a world famous photographer and former professor of Photography at the University of Pennsylvania, in his home town of Philadelphia. He has been featured in numerous print and television programs around the world, which are featured on this channel.
His personal work and research during the past 35 years 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 television and magazine publishing.
His first book of photography, Obsessions, published in 1998 with forward by the legendary photography critic, 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 nudity in photographic imagery often viewed as inappropriate in some cultures and acceptable in others.