Tyler Shields
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Shields in December 2011
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| Born |
April 29, 1982 Jacksonville, Florida, United States |
| Residence | Los Angeles, California, United States |
| Occupation | Photographer, screenwriter, director, inline skater |
| Website | www |
Tyler Shields (born April 29, 1982) is an American photographer, screenwriter, director, and former professional inline skater.
Shields was born in and grew up in Jacksonville, Florida.
Shields competed professionally as a vert inline skater. He participated in the 1999 and 2000 X Games and toured with Tony Hawk in 2003.
Tyler Shields has made several recent series of photographs. In January 2016, Vanity Fair featured some of Shields' photographs of Colton Haynes and Emily Bett. Shields' series "Historical Fiction" [2015] featured a black man hanging a KKK member The series covered events as the deaths of James Dean, John F Kennedy, Dr Martin Luther King and Marilyn Monroe, the first men on the moon and the break up of The Beatles. In his series "Provocateur" [2014] he had an alligator biting a crocodile bag Another photograph from this series "Three Witches" was included as part of the Sotheby's auction in London And his photograph "Bunny" was featured in the Phillip's London auction
Tyler Shields has written two books of photography. His first photography book "The Dirty Side of Glamour" was released in November 2013 and published by Harper Collins' subsidiary Dey Street Books. His second book "Provocateur" will be published Fall 2016.
Shields' work often involves images of violence and danger. He collected blood from 20 celebrities to make a piece of art for his Life Is Not a Fairytale exhibit in Los Angeles and also photographed Lindsay Lohan as a vampire for that exhibit. In 2010, Shields photographed Lohan in studio portraits brandishing a gun. Shields was criticized for a photoshoot with Glee star Heather Morris with a bruised eye as making light of abusive treatment of women. Shields later apologized after receiving death threats, saying, "If you are anti-domestic abuse spread the word about it. Threatening to kill me is not going to help anything."
On December 15, 2014, Shields' script The Wild Ones was featured in the Black List, an annual list of the most well-liked unproduced screenplays. Shields directed the 2015 action thriller film Final Girl which starred Abigail Breslin.
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