Creator Bio
Arthur Tress
b. 1940
American Arthur Tress is an internationally renowned photographer whose work is found in collections worldwide, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Centre Georges Pompidou, and the International Museum of Photography. Tress is especially known for his black-and-white photographs of New York, his homoerotic images of male nudes, and for the dreamlike atmosphere in many of his photographs. His work has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions, including Fantastic Voyage, a retrospective at the Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C. (2001).
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Shadow and Synagogue
Shadow and Synagogue is one of a series of about one hundred photographs by Tress that appear in his 1975 book, Shadow, A Novel in Photographs. In the book’s visual narrative, the photographer’s…