Year: 1979 (Printed in 2020)
Material: Archival pigment print
Signature: Yes
Edition: Limited edition
Frame: No
Origin: Magnum Square Prints Editions in collaboration with Aperture
Total size including edges: 15 x 15 cm
Condition: Mint

Arthur Tress (Brooklyn, 1940) is one of the most renowned and imaginative photographers of his generation. Focusing on New York City, he began to photograph the neglected fringes of the urban waterfront with a straight documentary approach. This gradually evolved into a more personal mode of “magic realism” combining improvised elements of actual life with stage fantasy that became his hallmark style. In the late 1960s Tress was inspired to do a series based upon children's dreams that combined his interests in ritual ceremony, Jungian archetypes, and social allegory. Later bodies of work dealing with the hidden dramas of adult relationships and the reenactments of male homosexual desire evolved from this primarily theatrical approach. “Under the West Side Highway, in an abandoned rail yard [...], a pair of lovers supportively clings to each other. Each protectively and tenderly holds his partner, as though in a premonition of the coming AIDS crisis or resonating forward to our own times of the COVID pandemic” Arthur Tress