Arthur Tress was born 1940 in Brooklyn, NY. He attended Bard College where he studied painting, art history, and world philosophy. Between 1958 and 1962 he started making short picture films and continued his interest in photography. He moved to Paris in 1962 to attend film school. His first work was primarily documentary, in a slightly surrealistic style in urban environments. Through these years he traveled through Europe, Egypt, Mexico, Japan, and India, documenting cultures and customs.
In 1968 he returned to New York to become a professional photographer. He began posing young people in fantasy scenes recalling childhood dreams in his series, Dream Collector. He also created homoerotic photographs of nude males around the coast of California in his series, Male Nudes.
He changed his subject matter in the early 1980s when he began photographing arranged still-lifes, first with one or two man made objects in natural scenes, then progressing to complex constructions that evoked emotional reactions. He also created sculptures by modifying and painting objects found in hospitals, and documented this through photographs. In other works he made up fantasy stories, and told the stories in a series of still lifes. His more recent and constructed photographs can be found on his website through the above link.
In 1968 he returned to New York to become a professional photographer. He began posing young people in fantasy scenes recalling childhood dreams in his series, Dream Collector. He also created homoerotic photographs of nude males around the coast of California in his series, Male Nudes.
He changed his subject matter in the early 1980s when he began photographing arranged still-lifes, first with one or two man made objects in natural scenes, then progressing to complex constructions that evoked emotional reactions. He also created sculptures by modifying and painting objects found in hospitals, and documented this through photographs. In other works he made up fantasy stories, and told the stories in a series of still lifes. His more recent and constructed photographs can be found on his website through the above link.
From The Dream Collector Series
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| Flood Dream, Ocean City, New Jersey, 1971 |
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| The Boys from New Hope, Pennsylvania, 1980 |
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| Boot Fantasy, New York, 1979 |
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