Arthur Tress: Best Photographer You’ve Never Heard Of

His name doesn’t provoke instant recognition to the photo layperson like Diane Arbus’ name does, but Arthur Tress has been diligently putting out fantastic images for the last half-century-plus that have some of the same nightmare-ish quality. This first photo, Flood Dream, is a part of a series in a book called Dream Collector 1972 book, in which “children shared [with Tress] common nightmare scenarios such as falling, drowning, and being trapped, chased by monsters, or humiliated in the classroom.”

Arthur Tress - Flood Dream

By Lee Wallender

Deception, influence, fakes, illusions, themed environments, simulations, secret places, secret infrastructure, imagined places, dreamscapes, movie sets and props, evasions, camouflage, studio backlots, miniatures.

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