ARTHUR TRESS Facing Up 2005 SIGNED Limited Edition XX/50 Book 2nd Edition NEW
SIGNED Limited Edition Hardcover Photography Book. Published by Top Choice Press, LLC. Hardcover housed in cloth folio limited to 50 SIGNED and numbered copies.
Condition: Excellent / As NEW. On the occasion of the 25th Anniversary of the original printing of Arthur Tress: Facing Up , a special signed limited edition of this important work by the internationally acclaimed photographer Arthur Tress was published.This important groundbreaking book was one of the first male nude fine art publications to be produced by a mainstream publisher. " Facing Up " was also one of the first male photography books dealing with the subject matter of documenting the New York sexual underground of the pre-AIDS era. Many of the images have become classics of the genre, and have inspired a future generation of photographers. This limited edition contains an original copy of the 1980 publication, bound in rich black cloth boards, and housed in a specially designed cloth folio. The original cover image is a tipped-in gelatin silver print mounted on the front cover of the signed limited edition book.
This traveling exhibition featured over 130 photographs tracing Arthur Tress' career from his early documentary work to his most recent experiments in staged and manipulated imagery. Autobiographical in form, the exhibition emphasized Tress' singular language of surrealism, humor, eroticism and social protest. Arthur Tress is an influential and prolific photographer whose career spans nearly half a century.
He is noted for helping to bridge the gap between documentary and surrealistic photography. Tress was born in New York in 1940 and educated in Fine Arts at Bard College. He started photographing in 1963 while traveling in Mexico, Japan, India and Europe. 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 including, The Dream Collector (1973), Shadow (1975), Theater of the Mind (1976), Facing Up (1980), Talisman (1986), Teapot Opera (1988), Machinations (1993), Requiem for a Paperweight (1994), Arthur Tress (1995), Male of the Spiecies (1999), Fish Tank Sonata (2000), Fantastic Voyage (2001), Memories (2003), San Francisco 1964 (2012) and Transréalités. Tress' work is held in the following public collections: Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; International Museum of Photography and Film, George Eastman House, Rochester, NY; Center for Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL; Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, France; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; Whitney Museum of Art, New York, NY; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA. PLEASE SEE MY OTHER AUCTIONS BY CLICKING MY. The item "ARTHUR TRESS Facing Up 2005 SIGNED Limited Edition XX/50 Book 2nd Edition NEW" is in sale since Wednesday, November 9, 2016. This item is in the category "Books\Antiquarian & Collectible". The seller is "thearteryfineart" and is located in Miami, Florida.This item can be shipped worldwide.
- Year Printed: 2005
- Modified Item: No
- Country/Region of Manufacture: Unknown
- Topic: Photography: Monographs
- Binding: Hardcover in Cloth Folio
- Illustrator: Arthur Tress
- Author: Arthur Tress
- Subject: Art & Photography
- Original/Facsimile: Original
- Language: English
- Publisher: Twin Palms Publishers
- Place of Publication: Boston, MA
- Special Attributes: Illustrated