MALE OF THE SPECIES : FOUR DECADES OF PHOTOGRAPHY; Edited by David Sprigle
by Tress, Arthur
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine / Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1883923409
- ISBN 13
- 9781883923402
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Eugene, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Santa Monica, CA: Fotofactory Press, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. Square Quarto, 10.3 in. x 10.3 in. Unpaginated. Illustrated with 129 full page black and white photographs. Dark brown cloth boards with silver title to front and spine. Dustjacket protected in mylar. From the photographer's website: Born in Brooklyn, New York, on November 24, 1940, Arthur Tress began his first camera work as a teenager in the surreal neighborhood of Coney Island where he spent hours exploring the decaying amusement parks. Later, during five years of world travel, mostly in Asia and Africa, he developed an interest in ethnographical photography that eventually led him to his first professional assignment as a U.S. government photographer recording the endangered folk cultures of Appalachia. Seeing the destructive results of corporate resource extraction, Tress began to use his camera to raise environmental awareness about the economic and human costs of pollution. 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 of directorial fabrication. 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.
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- Bookseller
- Aardvark Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 87583
- Title
- MALE OF THE SPECIES : FOUR DECADES OF PHOTOGRAPHY; Edited by David Sprigle
- Author
- Tress, Arthur
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine / Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1883923409
- ISBN 13
- 9781883923402
- Publisher
- Fotofactory Press
- Place of Publication
- Santa Monica, CA
- Date Published
- 1999
- Keywords
- male nudes
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