![]() ![]() In 1972 he got a National Endowment for the Arts grant for his "Dream Collector" series. He exhibited his series "Open Space in the Inner City" at the same Sierra Gallery in 1970 and received a New York State Council on the Arts grant for the series the next year. He had his first one-person exhibition this year, "Appalachia-People and Places", which was held at the Smithsonian Institute and the Sierra Gallery (New York City).He worked as a documentary photographer for V.I.S.T.A. After traveling through Europe, Egypt, Japan, India and Mexico, he settled in Stockholm, Sweden and worked as a photographer at the Stockholm Ethnographic Museum.In 1968 he moved back to New York with a commitment to becoming a professional photographer. After graduation from Bard, Tress moved to Paris to attend film school. He continued to photograph and began making short films. He attended Bard College where he studied art and art history, world culture and philosophy under Heinrich Bluecher. ![]() He took his first photographs while still in elementary school in 1952. His signature and inscription ("vintage print made by the photographer in 1969 from the 'Dream Collector'") in black ink on verso.Arthur Tress was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY on November 24, 1940. Photographer's stamp, date (1972) and title in lilac ink in photographer's hand on verso. ![]() ![]() Signed in black ink on recto in lower margin. A Boy Sits under an Abandoned Railroad Track, Staten Island, NY ![]()
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