Anthony Tyley Photography

Welcome to Anthony Tyley photography. Please click on any of the images in the slideshow to view the full size photograph in the Introductory Gallery. The newly updated gallery: "London People in the 1960's and 70's" is now open in the "People" group.

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Photographs of the family in wartime taken by his father and "Photograms of the Year" annuals were Tyley's early influences. In his teens in 1950's West London, he photographed the school sports teams and the school play. The career breakthrough came with a successful job application to BBC Television at 20. Over the next 25 years from 1963 to 1988, Anthony Tyley progressed from Studio Cameraman to Film Editor, and finally Studio Director of Arts programmes for BBC - 2.

From 1990 to 1994 Tyley studied Fine Art Painting full time in Cambridge and later at the City & Guilds of London Art School. After returning to Cambridge, he specialized in portraits in oils and pencil: please see website www.cambridgeportraits.com. Anthony Tyley's current successes in private art tuition, with both adults and young people, rely heavily on the traditional teachings at the City & Guilds Art School. www.cambridgeportraits.com /private art tuition

However, as with many photographers, Tyley is increasingly finding photography to be a more satisfactory medium than painting for his personal work. Alongside new digital photography, negatives and slides from his archive are currently being reassessed and digitized. The common subject is people, whether contemporary portraits, or the photographs taken in London in the 1960's and 70's. A new gallery, "Narrative", explores the thread of interest in everyday dramas taking place in people's lives, and captured objectively, at a distance, very often without the subject's knowledge: "We steal, but in order to give." Henri Cartier - Bresson. This approach contrasts with the essentially collaborative act of formal portraiture, though the boundary is sometimes blurred.

Anthony Tyley Cambridge, England, January, 2012.