Arthur Tress
Brooklyn, US
Dream Collector
Child's Play
Private Acts
Theatre of the Mind
Open Space
Male Nudes
Still Lives
Born in Brooklyn in 1940, Arthur Tress learned his photographic skills in the school of the street: he began with the sadness of the suburbs in the early morning, the waltz of greasy papers and dead leaves before the influx of passers-by, but above all with the surreal and nightmarish atmosphere of the Luna Park amusement park in Coney Island, New York. As a teenager, he began taking photographs by capturing the frozen grimaces of plastic clowns, the gondolas of the roller coaster or the ghost train give themselves before the arrival of the children. Even if he then diversified his practices, the strangeness that had germinated in his images on the boards of Coney Island would always be present in the background.
Flood Dream, Ocean City, New Jersey, 1971
Tirage argentique
36 x 28 cm, édition de 50
Girl with Dunce's Cap, New York, New York, 1972
Tirage argentique
26 x 26 cm, édition de 50
Owl on Road, Big Thicket, Texas, 1975
Tirage argentique
60 x 50 cm, édition de 50
Owl on Road, Big Thicket, Texas
(Variation with one closed eye), 1975
Tirage argentique
60 x 50 cm, édition de 50
Two Boys and Dog, Coney Island, New York, 1969
Tirage argentique
36 x 28 cm, édition de 50
Hockey Player, New York City, 1971
Tirage argentique
36 x 28 cm, édition de 50
Girl with Eagle, Wood’s Hole, Massachusetts, 1973
Tirage argentique
36 x 28 cm, édition de 50
Girl collecting Goldfish, Château Breteuil
France, 1974
Tirage argentique
50 x 60 cm, édition de 50
Last Portrait of my Father, New York, 1978
Tirage argentique
36 x 28 cm, édition de 50
Hermaphrodite between Venus and Mercury, East Hampton, New York, 1973
Tirage argentique
36 x 28 cm, édition de 50
Bride and Groom, 1971
Tirage argentique
30 x 28 cm, édition de 50
Boy in water under Bridge, Queens, New York, 1970
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36 x 28 cm, édition de 50
Teenage Runners, New York, New York, 1975
Tirage argentique
36 x 28 cm, édition de 50
Making Leaves, Cold Spring, New York, 1978
Tirage argentique
36 x 28 cm, édition de 50