Arthur Tress
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Arthur Tress | |
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| Born | November 24, 1940 Brooklyn, New York, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Bard College (BFA) |
| Occupation | Photographer |
| Website | www |
Arthur Tress (born November 24, 1940) is an American photographer.[1] He is known for his staged surrealism[1][2] and exposition of the human body.
Early life and education
Tress attended Abraham Lincoln High School in Coney Island. He studied painting at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York,[1] earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1962. After graduation he moved to Paris to attend film school, but soon dropped out.
Career
While living in France, he traveled to Japan, Africa, Mexico, and throughout Europe. He observed many secluded tribes and cultures and was fascinated by the roles played by the shaman of the different groups of people. The cultures to which he was introduced would play a role in his later work. Tress spent the spring and summer of 1964 in San Francisco, documenting the 1964 Republican National Convention that nominated Barry Goldwater, civil rights demonstrations at segregated car dealerships on Van Ness Avenue, and The Beatles' 1964 world tour.[3] Tress took over 900 photographs that were later shelved until 2009 when he rediscovered a stack of vintage prints while organising his sister's estate after her death.[3] The work was subsequently exhibited at San Francisco's de Young Museum.[4][5] In the late 1960s, he made a series of surreal photographs about children's dreams, using staged scenarios.[1][6] Tress resided in Cambria, California, for 25 years, and now lives in San Francisco.[7]
Publications
- Open Space in the Inner City: Ecology and the Urban Environment. New York: New York State Council on the Arts, 1971
- Arthur Tress: The Dream Collector. Text by John Minahan.
- Richmond: Westover, 1972.
- New York: Avon, 1974.
- Shadow. A Novel in Photographs. New York: Avon, 1975
- Theater of the Mind. Text by Duane Michaels, Michel Tournier and A.D. Coleman. Dobbs Ferry: Morgan and Morgan, 1976.
- Reves. Text by Michel Tournier. Brussels: Complexe, 1979.
- Talisman. Edited by Marco Livingstone. Oxford: Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, 1986.
- The Teapot Opera. Photographs and text by Arthur Tress.
- Goro International, 1986.
- Abbeville, 1988.
- Male of the Species: Four Decades of Photography by Arthur Tress. Text by Michale Tournier. Fotofactory, 1999.
- Fish Tank Sonata. Bulfinch, 2000.
- Arthur Tress: Fantastic Voyage: Photographs 1956-2000. Bulfinch, 2001.
- Memories. Photographs by Arthur Tress, Poems by Guillaume Apollinaire. 21st, 2003
- Arthur Tress: Facing Up. Top Choice, 2004.
- Arthur Tress San Francisco 1964[8] by James Ganz. Prestel USA, 2012.
- Arthur Tress: Transréalités. France: Contrejour. 2013.
- Egypt 1963 One. Southport, England: Café Royal, 2014. Edition of 150 copies.[n 1]
- Egypt 1963 Two. Southport, England: Café Royal, 2014. Edition of 150 copies.[n 1]
- The Circle of The Orange Rubber Traffic Cone, Pot Holder, 2019. Edition of 120 copies.
Collections
Tress's work is held in the following public collections:
- Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris[9][10]
- Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris: 12 prints (as of December 2019)[11]
- George Eastman Museum, Rochester, New York: 5 prints (as of December 2019)[12]
- Honolulu Museum of Art[13]
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California: 138 prints (as of December 2019)[14]
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: 3 prints (as of December 2019)[15]
- Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Illinois: 14 prints (as of December 2019)[16]
- Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas: 14 prints (as of December 2019)[17]
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California: 4 prints (as of December 2019)[18]
- Whitney Museum of Art, New York: 33 prints (as of December 2019)[19]
Awards
- 2012: Honoree: Achievement in Fine Art, Lucie Awards[20]
Further reading
- Goysdotter, Moa (2013). Impure Vision: American Staged Art Photography of the 1970s. Lund: Nordic Academic Press. ISBN 9789187351006.
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Web page: "Egypt 1963 One and Two : Café Royal Books". Archived from the original on 2014-08-06. Retrieved 2014-08-18.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Andreasson, Karin (26 March 2015). "Arthur Tress's best photograph: a boy from the Boston ghetto hides with a gun". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2019-12-31 – via theguardian.com.
- ↑ Hirsch, Robert; Erf, Greg (CON) (2010-12-28). Exploring Color Photography: From Film to Pixels. Focal Press. p. 78. ISBN 978-0-240-81335-6. Retrieved 29 August 2011.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedtelegraph-gantz - ↑ Hamlin, Jesse (2012-03-22). "'Arthur Tress: San Francisco 1964' at the de Young". SFGate. Retrieved 2019-11-18.
- ↑ "Arthur Tress: San Francisco 1964". The New York Times. 2012-04-04. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-11-18.
- ↑ Carlson, Jen (11 June 2014). "The Amazing Arthur Tress Shares His Dark, Surreal Photographs From The 1970s". Gothamist. Archived from the original on 31 December 2019. Retrieved 2019-12-31.
- ↑ Dennis, Patrick (July 19, 2019). "Q&A: Acclaimed photographer, former Cambria resident reflects on fame, evolution of art". The Tribune (San Luis Obispo). Retrieved November 17, 2019.
- ↑ "Arthur Tress – San Francisco 1964". PhotoBook Journal. 2012-04-13. Retrieved 2019-10-01.
- ↑ Tress – via BnF Catalogue général (http://catalogue.bnf.fr).
- ↑ Tournier, Michel (1979). Rêves. Bruxelles [Paris]: Éditions Complexe diffusion Presses universitaires de France. ISBN 978-2-87027-040-0 – via BnF Catalogue général (http://catalogue.bnf.fr).
- ↑ "Arthur Tress". Centre Pompidou. Retrieved 2019-12-31.
- ↑ "Works: Arthur Tress". George Eastman House. Retrieved 2019-12-31.
- ↑ Honolulu Museum of Art, Girl in a Cage, 1980, accession 19904
- ↑ "Arthur Tress". Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Retrieved 2019-12-31.
- ↑ "Search the Collection". Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 2019-12-31.
- ↑ "Tress, Arthur". Museum of Contemporary Photography. Retrieved 2019-12-31.
- ↑ "Search the Collection". Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Retrieved 2019-12-31.
- ↑ "Arthur Tress". San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 2019-12-31.
- ↑ "Arthur Tress". Whitney Museum of Art. Retrieved 2019-12-31.
- ↑ "The Lucie Awards: Arthur Tress". Retrieved 2019-12-31.
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