My urge to photograph is activated by an almost biological instinct for preservation from disorder. The camera is a mechanical apparatus that extends my natural ability and desire for meaningful organization. I need it to survive. — Arthur Tress Copy Share Image
The gay life is filled with as much cruelty and loneliness as the heterosexual life... I search into my dreams or desires and try to ask myself how these feelings can be made into concrete images... Are they really abnormal,… — Arthur Tress Copy Share Image
Photography has an amazing ability to capture the fine detail of surface textures. But far too often these intricate patterns are loved by the… — Arthur Tress Copy Share Image
Photography is my method for defining the confusing world that rushes constantly toward me. It is my defensive attempt to reduce our daily chaos… — Arthur Tress Copy Share Image
My urge to photograph is activated by an almost biological instinct for preservation from disorder. The camera is a mechanical apparatus that extends my… — Arthur Tress Copy Share Image
The photographic image has great possibilities. The magical photograph attempts to go beyond the immediate context of the recorded experience into the realm of… — Arthur Tress Copy Share Image
I believe it is the photographer's function to reveal that which is concealed, even if it be repugnant to the majority, not merely to… — Arthur Tress Copy Share Image
Perhaps why so much of today's photography doesn't grab us or mean anything to our personal lives is that it fails to touch upon… — Arthur Tress Copy Share Image
The gay life is filled with as much cruelty and loneliness as the heterosexual life... I search into my dreams or desires and try… — Arthur Tress Copy Share Image
The photographic frame is no longer used as a documentary window into undisturbed private lives, but as a stage on which the subjects consciously… — Arthur Tress Copy Share Image
