the Stockholm pictures form an introduction to Tress’s mature theatrical images. Here he began in earnest a distinct directorial style of documentation, employing candid situations altered to suit his particular and intuitive imagination. In 1967 Tress moved to Sweden where he prepared educational filmstrips for the Stockholm Ethnographical Museum. his photography shifted towards ethnographic documentation of the different cultures he came across. over the next several years he traveled through Europe, Africa, Mexico, India, and Japan. In 1962 Tress went to Paris to study filmmaking but soon gave it up. The later photography of Alfred Steiglitz also interested Tress in the early years, and he briefly experimented with photographic homages to the master in a number of composed, artistic nature studies of trees and grasses. His early photographic experiments were deeply influenced by Heinrich Bluecher of Bard College, New York, with whom he studied comparative world culture and philosophy. A recurrent memory of his youth is his early view of the world, filtered through his bedroom window, of a solitary acanthus tree brooding in the dark, narrow courtyard outside. Arthur Tress was born on November 24, 1940, in Brooklyn, New York.
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