Photographer Tyler Shields: plagiarist or postmodernist?

• Photographer Tyler Shields: plagiarist or postmodernist?

Representatives GuyHepner gallery that sells works of photographer Tyler Shields, argue that the value of his photographs varies from 5,000 to 15,000 dollars. Sam Shields says that the price of works sometimes as high as 175,000 dollars.

Tyler Shields photographs are exhibited in galleries around the world. But it would not seem surprising if photos of the eminent photographer so strongly resembles the famous images in the history of photography.

Photo left: Tyler Shields, 2010. Right: Terry Richardson, 2005

Picture left: Tyler Shields, 2011. Right: Guy Bourdin, 1979

Picture left: Tyler Shields, 2015. Right: Henry Lyutvayler, 2012

Picture left: Tyler Shields, 2014. Photo right: Sally Mann, 1989

Picture left: Tyler Shields, 2014. Right: Helmut Newton, 1982

Picture left: Tyler Shields, 2014. Photo right: Diane Arbus, 1966

Photos from left: Tyler Shields, 2015. Right: Irving Penn, 1986

Photo left: Tyler Shields, 2009. Right screenshots: frames from the clip Moby We Are All Made of Stars, 2002

Photo left: Tyler Shields, 2014. Photo right: Annie Leibovitz, 1984

Photo left: Tyler Shields, 2015. Right: Helmut Newton, 1975

Photo left: Tyler Shields, 2015. Right: Helmut Newton, 1967. (Photo of Newton, apparently inspired by the movie "North by Northwest" Hitchcock)

Photo left: Tyler Shields, 2015. Right: the cover of the single Yeah Yeah Yeahs, 2009

Photo left: Tyler Shields, 2013. Photo right: Ryan McGinley, 2007

Photo left: Tyler Shields, 2013. Photo right: Ryan McGinley, 2007

Photo left: Tyler Shields, 2011. Right: Robert Bailey, 1976

Photo left: Tyler Shields, 2012. Right: Nick Veasey, 2008

Photo left: Tyler Shields, 2012. Right: Nick Veasey, 2010

Photo left: Tyler Shields, 2015. Right: Larry Clark, 1968

Photo left: Tyler Shields, 2015. Right: Terry Richardson, 1998