Tyler Shields

Shields was born in Jacksonville, Florida.{{cite web|url=http://thedailytruffle.com/blog/2012/05/couple-tyler-shields-francesca-fisher-eastwood/|title=Francesca Eastwood & Tyler Shields|date=May 20, 2012|publisher=The Daily Truffle|accessdate=June 30, 2016}}

Shields competed professionally as a vert inline skater. He participated in the 1999 and 2000 X Games and toured with Tony Hawk in 2003.{{cite news|last=Clark|first=Ryan F.|title=Hawk Still Stoked Over Tricks Of Trade|url=https://www.orlandosentinel.com/2003/01/11/hawk-still-stoked-over-tricks-of-trade/|access-date=June 11, 2012|newspaper=Orlando Sentinel|date=January 11, 2003}}{{cite web|title=The 1999 ASA Pro Tour jams N2 Ontario CA|url=http://thedesktop.com/n2inline/html/news_asa_pro99fin.html|publisher=N2inline.Com|accessdate=June 11, 2012|date=June 3, 1999}}{{cite news|last=Tomalin|first=Terry|title=Edgy sport keeps generation in-line|url=http://www.sptimes.com/News/051900/news_pf/Outdoors/Edgy_sport_keeps_gene.shtml|newspaper=St. Petersburg Times|accessdate=June 11, 2012|date=May 19, 2000}}

Shields credits Fraser Kee Scott of A Gallery with discovering him, stating, "I have a lot of friends that are Scientologists ... Fraser [Kee Scott], the guy who runs that gallery, he found me back in the MySpace days. He is a very, very fucking smart guy and he has a great eye for things. He worked at my last gallery and to my knowledge he wasn't promoting Scientology to anybody, he was trying to sell art."{{cite web|url=http://www.blouinartinfo.com/features/article/38260-whats-lindsay-lohan-doing-with-that-knife-a-qa-with-tyler-shields-young-hollywoods-hottest-and-most-twisted-photographer|title=What's Lindsay Lohan Doing With That Knife?: A Q&A With Tyler Shields, Young Hollywood's Hottest and Most Twisted Photographer |author=Ann Binlot |date=12 August 2011 |website=Blouin Artinfo|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130927103222/http://www.blouinartinfo.com/features/article/38260-whats-lindsay-lohan-doing-with-that-knife-a-qa-with-tyler-shields-young-hollywoods-hottest-and-most-twisted-photographer|archive-date=27 September 2013 |publisher=Blouin Media |accessdate=5 July 2013}}

In August 2009, Shields participated in a photoshoot with The Vampire Diaries cast members Nina Dobrev, Candice Accola, Kayla Ewell and Sara Canning at Rumble Road Bridge, Smarr, Georgia.{{Cite web |title='Vamp Diaries' Chicks Busted for Being Flash Mob |url=https://www.tmz.com/2009/09/11/vampire-diaries-mugshots-nina-dobrev-arrest/ |access-date=2022-06-19 |website=TMZ |language=en}} The group was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct after reports from the public sighted some of the members hanging off the bridge.{{Cite web |title=TV Starlets Behind Bars |url=https://www.thesmokinggun.com/file/tv-starlets-behind-bars?page=6 |access-date=2022-06-19 |website=The Smoking Gun |language=en}}{{Cite news |last=Matteucci |first=Megan |title=Vampire Diaries' stars arrested in Ga. |language=English |work=The Atlanta Journal-Constitution |url=https://www.ajc.com/entertainment/celebrity-news/vampire-diaries-stars-arrested/SeKwoFqLpzvQmLgrpdyGyH/ |access-date=2022-06-20 |issn=1539-7459}}{{Cite web |date=2010-07-21 |title=TV Starlets Behind Bars |url=https://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/crime/tv-starlets-behind-bars |access-date=2022-06-19 |website=The Smoking Gun |language=en}}

Shields has exhibited several series of photographs. In January 2016, Vanity Fair featured some of Shields' photographs of Colton Haynes and Emily Bett.{{cite web|last1=Rich|first1=Katey|title=Exclusive: Colton Haynes Dons Drag with Emily Bett Rickards|url=http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2016/01/colton-haynes-drag-emily-bett-rickards-tyler-shields|website=www.vanityfair.com|publisher=Vanity Fair|accessdate=June 24, 2016|date=January 14, 2016}} Shields' series "Historical Fiction" [2015] featured a black man hanging a KKK member.{{cite web|url=http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/05/13/a-black-man-hangs-a-white-supremacist-tyler-shields-s-charged-photography.html|title=A Black Man Hangs a White Supremacist: Tyler Shields's Charged Photography|first=Justin|last=Jones|website=The Daily Beast |date=13 May 2015|publisher=|accessdate=25 November 2016}} The series covered events such as the deaths of James Dean, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., and Marilyn Monroe; the first men on the moon; and the break-up of The Beatles.{{cite web|url=http://www.hasselblad.com/our-world/news/historical-fiction-by-tyler-shields|title=Historical Fiction by Tyler Shields – Our World – Hasselblad|publisher=|accessdate=25 November 2016}} In his 2014 series Provocateur, he had an alligator biting a crocodile bag.{{cite web|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/15/alligator-bites-birkin-bag_n_5332923.html|title=Alligator Takes A Big Bite Out Of $100,000 Crocodile Birkin Bag|first=Carly Ledbetter Huffington Post Entertainment|last=Writer|website=HuffPost |date=15 May 2014|publisher=|accessdate=25 November 2016}} Another photograph from this series, Three Witches, was included as part of the Sotheby's auction in London.{{cite web|url=http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2016/photographs-l16780/lot.19.html|title=shields tyler 'three witches' 2014 – fashion – sotheby's l16780lot8zydzen|publisher=}} His photograph "Bunny" was featured in the Phillip's London auction.{{cite web|url=http://www.phillips.com/detail/TYLER-SHIELDS/UK040215/22|title=PHILLIPS : UK040215, TYLER-SHIELDS|publisher=}}

Some observers, including Henry Leutwyler, art critic Paddy Johnson,{{cite web |last1=Johnson |first1=Paddy |last2=Farley |first2=Michael Anthony |title=Tyler Shields is A Terrible Artist. Kathy Griffin is Just His Accomplice. |url=http://artfcity.com/2017/06/01/tyler-shields-is-a-terrible-artist-kathy-griffin-is-just-his-accomplice/ |website=ArtFCity |accessdate=August 10, 2020 |date=June 1, 2017}} and writer/photographer Jamie Lee Curtis Taete, have said that Tyler Shields takes other artists' concepts and passes them off as his own.{{cite web|url=https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qbx9dd/has-celebrity-photographer-tyler-shields-ripped-off-other-artists-on-his-way-to-fame|title=Is Celebrity Photographer Tyler Shields Inspired, Or Copying Other Artists?}}

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.{{cite web |title=Tyler Shields Talks Debut Photo Book 'The Dirty Side of Glamour' (Exclusive Image) |author=Ashley Lee |url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/tyler-shields-dirty-side-glamour-lindsay-lohan-demi-lovato-356418 |work=The Hollywood Reporter |date=August 2, 2012 |accessdate= July 13, 2017}} His second book, Provocateur, was published in January 2017.{{Cite book|last1=Shields|first1=Tyler|title=Provocateur: Photographs|isbn=978-1943876297|via=amazon.com|date=January 3, 2017 |publisher=Glitterati}}

Shields' work often involves images of violence and danger.{{cite news|url=http://www.laweekly.com/2011-11-10/art-books/tyler-shields-warhol-or-wannabe/|publisher=LAWeekly|title=Tyler Shields: Warhol or Wannabe?|author=Lina Lecaro|date=10 November 2011|accessdate=28 November 2011}} He collected blood from 20 celebrities to make a piece of art for his Life Is Not a Fairytale exhibit in Los Angeles[http://www.star-magazine.co.uk/breakingnews/view/29242/Shields-collects-stars-blood-for-artwork/ Shields collects stars' blood for artwork] Star (magazine) April 7, 2011 and also photographed Lindsay Lohan as a vampire for that exhibit.[http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2011\05\10\story_10-5-2011_pg9_8 Lindsay poses as vampire in new Tyler Shields’ exhibit] Tuesday, Daily Times May 10, 2011 In 2010, Shields photographed Lohan in studio portraits brandishing a gun.{{cite magazine|last=Oh |first=Eunice |url=http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20365187,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100502032251/http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20365187,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=May 2, 2010|title=PHOTO: Lindsay Lohan with Gun to Her Mouth |magazine=People |date=2010-04-29 |access-date=2010-05-26}} Shields was criticized for a photoshoot with Glee star Heather Morris with a bruised eye as making light of abusive treatment of women.{{cite news|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/02/heather-morris-photo-shoot_n_946721.html|title=Heather Morris Poses For Domestic Abuse-Themed Shoot (PHOTOS)|author=Ellie Krupnick|date=2 September 2011|accessdate=28 November 2011|work=Huffington Post}} His oeuvre has been criticized as copying other photographers' work.{{cite web|last1=Leutwyler|first1=Harry|title=Everyone wants to be successful until they see what it actually takes? (Harry Leutwyler Instagram account)|url=https://www.instagram.com/p/0sIJR4D3fT/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/iarchive/instagram/henryleutwyler/949169443509860307 |archive-date=December 25, 2021 |url-access=registration|accessdate=June 1, 2017|date=March 26, 2015|quote=@henryleutwyler @thetylershields just for the sake of the argument, this is the original photograph. I find it somehow offensive to attribute yourself the "creation" of it ‼️ #thetylershields}}{{cbignore}}

In 2017, Shields' photograph of Kathy Griffin holding a "bloody head resembling" U.S. President Donald Trump's face caused an uproar, causing both Donald Trump Jr. and Chelsea Clinton to denounce the act.{{cite news|url=http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/30/entertainment/kathy-griffin-trump-tyler-shields/|title=Kathy Griffin: 'I beg for your forgiveness' for gruesome anti-Trump photo shoot |author=Sandra Gomez|date=30 May 2017|accessdate=30 May 2017|publisher=CNN}} Griffin later criticized Shields for refusing to grant her the photograph's copyright, as well as the comparatively minor amount of public criticism experienced by Shields compared to herself, which Griffin attributed to sexism.{{cite news|last1=Schneller|first1=Johanna|title="Kathy Griffin is using her Trump photo controversy to fuel a world tour"|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/theatre-and-performance/article-saving-her-sorries-kathy-griffin-is-using-her-trump-photo-controversy/|accessdate=May 24, 2018|newspaper=The Globe and Mail|date=May 17, 2018}}

In 2010, Shields was brought on as a co-founder and photography editor by The Printed Blog.{{cite web |date=2010-06-19 |title=After a dark spell, the Printed Blog returns {{pipe}} Small Business {{pipe}} Blogs {{pipe}} Crain's Chicago Business |url=http://www.chicagobusiness.com/section/blogs?blogID=enterprise-city&plckController=Blog&plckBlogPage=BlogViewPost&uid=16ea2629-7e90-46f0-a706-dd6152764513&plckPostId=Blog%3A16ea2629-7e90-46f0-a706-dd6152764513Post%3Af5c99498-14b8-41ca-8872-90435daf375e&plckScript=blogScript&plckElementId=blogDest |accessdate=2011-05-30 |publisher=Chicagobusiness.com}}

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.{{cite web|last1=Jagernauth|first1=Kevin|title=Watch: Elizabeth Banks, Daniel Radcliffe, Rian Johnson & More Announce 2014 Black List, Plus Full Ranking Of Scripts|url=http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/watch-elizabeth-banks-daniel-radcliffe-rian-johnson-and-more-announce-2014-black-list-plus-full-ranking-of-scripts-20141215|website=Indiewire|accessdate=January 10, 2014|date=December 15, 2014}}[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5aQVxhRQ5o' Tyler Shields The Wild Ones] Nov 18th, 2014 Shields directed the 2015 action thriller film Final Girl, which starred Abigail Breslin.{{cite web|url=http://www.dreadcentral.com/news/117144/witness-a-final-girl-in-training/|title=Witness a Final Girl in Training – Dread Central|date=4 August 2015|publisher=}}

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