TRANSRÉALITÉS - Arthur Tress
"My high school was in the Brighton Beach and Coney Island area and, although photography wasn't taught there, it had a very good art section. My sister had given me a Rolleiflex and, in the off-season, I would hang out after school at abandoned amusement parks and disused rides, producing very introverted and melancholy images that perhaps reflected how I felt as a teenager with a budding homosexuality who didn't have many friends.". Arthur Tress This book brings together a selection of the great American photographer's best photographs, 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 emphasizes the cinematic and, in particular, neo-realist influences of the photographer's early years, as well as his radical vision, which 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, the work of Arthur Tress has gained worldwide recognition through numerous books and exhibitions. Along with Diane Arbus, Lee Fredlander, Duane Michals, Leslie Krims and Ralph Gibson, he was part of the generation of American photographers who swept away stereotypes in the 1970s. They put their talent at the service of an inventive, subversive aesthetic whose influence on the post-modern conception of photography can still be measured today. Unlike the other photographers of his generation, who renewed a single approach to photography, Arthur Tress shattered classic genres. By introducing a good deal of fiction into what would normally be a documentary point of view, he subverted reportage.
Authors: Arthur Tress, Claude Nori
Publisher: Contrejour
Publication date: May 2013
ISBN: 1090294085
Number of pages: 112
Format: 32 x 24 cm
"My high school was in the Brighton Beach and Coney Island area and, although photography wasn't taught there, it had a very good art section. My sister had given me a Rolleiflex and, in the off-season, I would hang out after school at abandoned amusement parks and disused rides, producing very introverted and melancholy images that perhaps reflected how I felt as a teenager with a budding homosexuality who didn't have many friends.". Arthur Tress This book brings together a selection of the great American photographer's best photographs, 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 emphasizes the cinematic and, in particular, neo-realist influences of the photographer's early years, as well as his radical vision, which 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, the work of Arthur Tress has gained worldwide recognition through numerous books and exhibitions. Along with Diane Arbus, Lee Fredlander, Duane Michals, Leslie Krims and Ralph Gibson, he was part of the generation of American photographers who swept away stereotypes in the 1970s. They put their talent at the service of an inventive, subversive aesthetic whose influence on the post-modern conception of photography can still be measured today. Unlike the other photographers of his generation, who renewed a single approach to photography, Arthur Tress shattered classic genres. By introducing a good deal of fiction into what would normally be a documentary point of view, he subverted reportage.
Authors: Arthur Tress, Claude Nori
Publisher: Contrejour
Publication date: May 2013
ISBN: 1090294085
Number of pages: 112
Format: 32 x 24 cm
"My high school was in the Brighton Beach and Coney Island area and, although photography wasn't taught there, it had a very good art section. My sister had given me a Rolleiflex and, in the off-season, I would hang out after school at abandoned amusement parks and disused rides, producing very introverted and melancholy images that perhaps reflected how I felt as a teenager with a budding homosexuality who didn't have many friends.". Arthur Tress This book brings together a selection of the great American photographer's best photographs, 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 emphasizes the cinematic and, in particular, neo-realist influences of the photographer's early years, as well as his radical vision, which 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, the work of Arthur Tress has gained worldwide recognition through numerous books and exhibitions. Along with Diane Arbus, Lee Fredlander, Duane Michals, Leslie Krims and Ralph Gibson, he was part of the generation of American photographers who swept away stereotypes in the 1970s. They put their talent at the service of an inventive, subversive aesthetic whose influence on the post-modern conception of photography can still be measured today. Unlike the other photographers of his generation, who renewed a single approach to photography, Arthur Tress shattered classic genres. By introducing a good deal of fiction into what would normally be a documentary point of view, he subverted reportage.
Authors: Arthur Tress, Claude Nori
Publisher: Contrejour
Publication date: May 2013
ISBN: 1090294085
Number of pages: 112
Format: 32 x 24 cm
