Arthur Tress American b.1940
Don’t Call Me Mary, NY’ 1979

£2,450

Silver print
Signed, titled, dated and numbered ‘2/50’ (in margin)
18cm x 18cm (print size), (38.5cm x 36.5cm framed)

Tress is one of the most renowned and innovative photographers of his generation. Citing his influences as Hokusai, Frank Lloyd Wright, Picasso, El Lissitzky, Duane Michaels and W Eugene Smith, his work is often staged, directing work and repurposing found materials or scenes in an inventively subjective manner, Tress’s work is rich with implication and fantasy. Impeccably composed, the photographs constantly explore the world around him. He is one of photography’s most singular and consistently original practitioners. Tress has exhibited widely and published numerous books of his work. In 'Theater of the Mind' (1976) Tress explored adult fantasies and began a period of overtly erotic work. In Facing Up (1980), Tress moved to openly gay photographic fantasies. Large sections of his archive have now been accepted into the Stamford University archive.