Historical Fiction: Behind the Scenes the powerful interpretations of iconic moments byTyler Shields
Have you ever think about the other side of the history? Real moments with real people, thats is what our friend Tyler Shields has created with his new serie "Historical Fiction". In this behind the scenes video, Taylor shares with you all this cool project.
“With Historical Fiction, I have tried to create a narrative of history frozen in time, as if each image were part of a book where the first and last 100 pages have been torn out, and the story is for you to decipher. What happened before and what happened after is only up to the imagination of the viewer, and it's that viewer that can envision themselves in many of these moments.” -said Tyler on andrewweiss.com -
Historical Fiction was photographed in locations across the United States over a period of twelve months through early 2015.
Zak Cheney-Rice wrote ( read the full article)
The most polarizing photo of Tyler Shields’ career shows a naked black man hanging a Klansman.The Ku Klux Klan is not happy about it, Shields says. Nor are a number of his artist friends, who claim the image is so loaded with painful iconography that they worry how viewers will react to it.
“It was too much for them,” Shields told Mic in an interview. “I have a photographer friend who looked at the image and freaked out: ‘You can’t put this out there. It’s too crazy. It’s too much.’
“[They] kept telling me, ‘People are going to ask you too many questions,’” he said. “‘I wouldn’t even know what to say.’”
“A lot of artists want an exact statement for everything they do,” he said. “But I never want to not create something because I’m afraid of what it might say.”
Read about this image on tylershields.com
Remember you can visit the Andrew Weiss Gallery in Santa Monica (website)
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