Tyler Shields Chanel Smoke For Sale

About this work

Chanel Smoke (2015) is a digital C-print by Tyler Shields, issued as an edition of 3 and available in two sizes: 30 × 22.5 and 60 × 45 inches. The work brings together two of the most potent symbols in the visual vocabulary of twentieth-century glamour—the house of Chanel and the curling image of smoke—in a composition that is at once elegant and transgressive, classic and edged with something darker. Smoke has been one of Tyler Shields' most consistently revisited visual motifs. Across decades and series, the curling plume functions as a marker of sensuality, defiance, and transience—an ephemeral beauty that photography catches and preserves. Here, in dialogue with the iconic aesthetic language of Chanel, smoke takes on additional meaning: a suggestion that even the most storied luxury codes are always slightly dissolving at their edges, containing within their elegance an element of the forbidden and the irreverent. Shields is one of the few contemporary photographers who can place luxury brand imagery in genuinely provocative contexts without losing either the glamour or the provocation. Chanel Smoke is among the most elegant demonstrations of this rare ability—a work that rewards sustained viewing with increasing layers of formal and conceptual complexity, occupying a pivotal place in Shields' sustained exploration of fashion, transgression, and the beautiful. The digital C-print process produces images of exceptional tonal range, color accuracy, and long-term archival stability, ensuring that the work retains its full visual impact for decades to come. Tyler Shields’ work is represented in significant private collections across the United States, Europe, and beyond, and this image stands as a compelling example of the formal intelligence and visual authority that have made him one of the most consequential photographers working in the contemporary fine art market today.