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“My high school was located in the Brighton Beach and Coney Island neighborhood, and although photography wasn’t taught there, it had a very strong art program. My sister had given me a Rolleiflex, and during the off-season, I’d hang out after school in abandoned amusement parks and disused rides, producing very introverted and melancholic images that perhaps reflected how I felt as a teenager with budding homosexuality who didn’t have many friends.” Arthur Tress This book brings together a selection of the best photographs by the great American photographer, ranging from those he took in the 1950s on the streets of New York and Brooklyn to the dreamlike, fantastical images that made him famous. For the first time, the selection of images highlights the cinematic—and more specifically, neorealist—influence of the author’s early work, as well as his radical vision that broke with the conventional “street photography” of the time.
The Author: Since 1974 and the acclaimed presentation of his series *The Dream Collector* at the Rencontres d'Arles by Alain Tournier, Arthur Tress’s work has gained international recognition through numerous books and exhibitions. Alongside Diane Arbus, Lee Friedlander, Duane Michals, Leslie Krims, and Ralph Gibson, he was part of the generation of American photographers who, in the 1970s, swept away stereotypes. They put their talent to work in the service of an inventive and subversive aesthetic whose influence on the postmodern conception of photography can still be felt today. Unlike other photographers of his generation who revitalized a single approach to photography, Arthur Tress shattered the classical genres. By introducing a significant element of fiction into what was normally intended to be a documentary perspective, he subverted the genre of photojournalism.
Authors: Arthur Tress, Claude Nori
Publisher: Contrejour
Publication date: May 2013
ISBN 1090294085
Number of pages 112
Size: 32 x 24 cm
“My high school was located in the Brighton Beach and Coney Island neighborhood, and although photography wasn’t taught there, it had a very strong art program. My sister had given me a Rolleiflex, and during the off-season, I’d hang out after school in abandoned amusement parks and disused rides, producing very introverted and melancholic images that perhaps reflected how I felt as a teenager with budding homosexuality who didn’t have many friends.” Arthur Tress This book brings together a selection of the best photographs by the great American photographer, ranging from those he took in the 1950s on the streets of New York and Brooklyn to the dreamlike, fantastical images that made him famous. For the first time, the selection of images highlights the cinematic—and more specifically, neorealist—influence of the author’s early work, as well as his radical vision that broke with the conventional “street photography” of the time.
The Author: Since 1974 and the acclaimed presentation of his series *The Dream Collector* at the Rencontres d'Arles by Alain Tournier, Arthur Tress’s work has gained international recognition through numerous books and exhibitions. Alongside Diane Arbus, Lee Friedlander, Duane Michals, Leslie Krims, and Ralph Gibson, he was part of the generation of American photographers who, in the 1970s, swept away stereotypes. They put their talent to work in the service of an inventive and subversive aesthetic whose influence on the postmodern conception of photography can still be felt today. Unlike other photographers of his generation who revitalized a single approach to photography, Arthur Tress shattered the classical genres. By introducing a significant element of fiction into what was normally intended to be a documentary perspective, he subverted the genre of photojournalism.
Authors: Arthur Tress, Claude Nori
Publisher: Contrejour
Publication date: May 2013
ISBN 1090294085
Number of pages 112
Size: 32 x 24 cm
