{{short description|American portrait photographer}} {{notability|Bio|date=July 2017}} {{Infobox artist | name = Sheryl Nields | birth_name = | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_date = | birth_place = Los Angeles, California, U.S. | death_date = | death_place = | known_for = Portrait photography | title = | spouse = | website = {{URL|http://copiousmanagement.com/sheryl-nields|Copious Management}} }}
'''Sheryl Nields''' is an American portrait photographer.<ref name=americanphoto>{{cite journal|title=The Rising Star|journal=American Photo|issue=Mar-Apr 2003|pages=60–61|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NxaooroNjowC&q=Sheryl%20Nields%20photographer&pg=PA80}}</ref>
== Early life and education== Nields grew up in Los Angeles, California. She attended Parsons School of Design, and then worked as an assistant to Patrick Demarchelier and Walter Chin.<ref name=americanphoto/> She started photographing musicians and bands. A photograph of Beck appeared in ''Spin'' in 1994.<ref name="Spin-Jul94">{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9Zg4PvPMtTcC&q=%22Sheryl+Nields%22&pg=PA5|website=Spin|title=Contents|access-date=22 June 2017|page=5|date=July 1994}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://unitednationsofphotography.com/2012/11/01/sheryl-neilds-interview/|publisher=United Nations of Photography|title=Sheryl Nields Interview|date=November 2012 }}</ref>
== Career== Nields has photographed actors and musicians including Sheryl Crow, Christina Hendricks,<ref>{{cite web|title=Christina Hendricks – Esquire Photoshoot Sheryl Nields|url=http://www.mendaily.com/christina-hendricks-sheryl-nields-photoshoot-for-esquire-photos/|website=Men Daily|date=16 January 2013 |access-date=23 June 2017}}</ref> Scarlett Johansson,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://iconolo.gy/archive/scarlett-johansson-sheryl-nields/1734 |title=Scarlett Johansson: Sheryl Nields |website=iconolo.gy |access-date=June 23, 2017}}</ref> Milla Jovovich,<ref name=americanphoto/> Diane Lane, Tobey Maguire,<ref>{{Cite journal|date=7 April 2003|title=The Quiet American|url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=f5h&AN=9478177&site=ehost-live|journal=Variety|volume=390|issue=8|pages=8|via=EBSCOhost}}</ref> Prince, Ben Stiller, Charlize Theron,<ref>{{cite journal|title=On Set|journal=American Photo|date=Mar–Apr 2008|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0W0zAQAAMAAJ&q=Sheryl%20Nields%20photographer&pg=PA29}}</ref> and Naomi Watts.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.Annenbergphotospace.org/person/sheryl-nields|publisher=Annenberg Space for Photography|title=Sheryl Nields}}</ref> Nields was among the thirty-five photographers included by Fergus Greer in ''The World’s Top Photographers: Portraits'' in 2004.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/7444496?q&versionId=8568300|publisher=National Gallery of Australia|title=The World's Top Photographers:Portraits}}</ref> In 2005 she photographed Carmen Electra for ''4 Inches'', a fundraising book and auction project for the Elton John AIDS Foundation.<ref name=artnet4>{{cite web |url=http://www.artnet.com/Magazine/news/artnetnews2/artnetnews6-13-05.asp |title=Artnet News: Celebrities Bare All At Christie's Galleries |date=June 13, 2005 |website=artnet.com |publisher=Artnet Worldwide Corporation |access-date=June 23, 2017}}</ref> A photograph of Jack Black was used for the movie poster for ''Nacho Libre'' in 2006.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.impawards.com/2006/nacho_libre.html|publisher=Internet Movie Poster Awards|title=IMP Awards 2006 Nacho Libre Poster}}</ref> In 2009 she photographed Dita Von Teese for ''Dita Stripteese'', a collection of three striptease flip books.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2009-dec-13-la-ig-giftguide13-2009dec13-story.html|work=Los Angeles Times|title=LA Times Holiday Style Gift Guide from A to Z|date=13 December 2009 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=American Striptease|url=http://www.thedailybeast.com/american-striptease|website=The Daily Beast|access-date=23 June 2017|date=11 Nov 2009}}</ref> For ''Traummänner'' at the Deichtorhallen in Hamburg in 2011, she photographed a friend in a Spider-Man mask and sweatshirt.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Kindermann|first1=Angelika|title=Was ist schön, was ideal?|url=http://www.art-magazin.de/kunst/12791-rtkl-traummaenner-hamburg-was-ist-schoen-was-ideal|website=Art Magazin|date=14 March 2011}}</ref>
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==External links== *{{official website|http://copiousmanagement.com/sheryl-nields|Copious Management}}
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