Arthur Tress: A Visual Odyssey 

Wednesday, April 4, 2018 - 5:15pm to 6:15pm

Van Pelt Library, Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion 

3420 Walnut Street 

Philadelphia, PA 19104

This location is ADA accessible

Please join us for a lecture by Arthur Tress. Tress is a renowned contemporary art photographer who uses photography to tell stories. He first gained recognition with his hauntingly beautiful book of images, Arthur Tress: The Dream Collector (1972), which challenged the photographic ethos of its time. HIs photographs call to mind aspects of surrealism and magical realism, juxtaposing elements of real life and staged fantasy. His work is in major public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, George Eastman House, Centre Georges Pompidou, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Whitney Museum of American Art, and Art Institute of Chicago. Among his other books are Shadow: A Novel in PhotographsTheatre of the MindReeves, and Arthur Tress: Fantastic Voyage: Photographs 1956-2000. Arthur Tress is also a collector of Japanese illustrated books, which have influenced his own work.

Sponsored by the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, with support from the Muriel Pfaelzer Bodek Fund for Library Public Events, and by the Department of the History of Art 

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