At their most successful, Tress’s images have the potency of actual dreams and nudge viewers to visit uncomfortable places without prescribing a route. Arthur Tress, "Boy with Root Hands ...

At their most successful, Tress’s images have the potency of actual dreams and nudge viewers to visit uncomfortable places without prescribing a route. Along with several others of his cohort, Arthur ...

Arthur Tress: Rambles, Dreams, and Shadows by James A. Ganz, Mazie M. Harris and Paul Martineau. J. Paul Getty Museum, 264pp, 17 colour and 198 b/w illustrations, $60/£50 (hb), published 21 ...

Tress started out as an ethnographic documentarian but, partly inspired by the rituals he recorded, turned to ever more premeditated subjects. In an early project, he asked New York children to tell ...

He now lives and works in Cambria, CA. The work of Arthur Tress is characterized by allegorical wit, narrative poignancy and the interplay of objects and people. He has produced numerous books ...