Tyler Mitchell's Art-Historical Mood Board

"Tyler Mitchell, the thirty-year-old photography phenom, has enjoyed a rocket-fuelled rise in the fashion and art worlds since graduating from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts less than a decade ago. In 2018, he became the first Black photographer to shoot a cover for Vogue, capturing Beyoncé in a frilly white prairie dress with an elaborate headpiece that simultaneously recalled Giuseppe Arcimboldo's fantastical paintings, Frida Kahlo's elaborate flower crowns, and Carmen Miranda's fruit-basket hats."

"He has since done campaigns for fashion houses including Ralph Lauren, Louis Vuitton, Ferragamo, Balenciaga, Loewe, and Wales Bonner, and photographed for the catalogue of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's recent exhibition " Superfine: Tailoring Black Style." He has had two solo exhibitions at the Gagosian gallery, which now represents him, and has been the subject of a handful of museum shows in the United States and Europe, including "Wish This Was Real," currently on view at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie, in Paris."

Tyler Mitchell rose rapidly in fashion and art after graduating from NYU Tisch, becoming the first Black photographer to shoot a Vogue cover in 2018 by photographing Beyoncé. His images mix sumptuous, old‑school glamour with referential motifs drawing on Arcimboldo, Frida Kahlo, and Carmen Miranda, while he has shot campaigns for major fashion houses and contributed to museum catalogues. He has had solo shows at Gagosian, museum exhibitions in the US and Europe, and a book, Wish This Was Real, published by Aperture with prominent contributors. His strongest photographs reveal an attentive, tender focus on imperfection and Black beauty.

Read at The New Yorker