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 photographer for their own sake. The richness of texture fascinates the eye and the photographer falls easy prey to such quickly-caught complexities. The designs mean nothing in themselves and are merely pictorially attractive abstractions. A central… — Arthur Tress Copy Share
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
