Making Leaves

Tress uses a bed, the juxtaposition of two rakes and a scattering of fallen leaves to enter a sexy anthropomorphic world. Often men are called "rakes" to suggest amoral activity.  In this vintage image #8/50, the men are suggested by two actual rakes. Arthur Tress was born in 1940 and raised in Brooklyn, New York. He took his first photographs while still in elementary school in 1952. His work has been published in several monographs, including Arthur Tress: The Dream Collector, Shadow: A Novel in Photographs, "Theatre of the Mind, Reeves and Arthur Tress: Fantastic Voyage: Photographs 1956-2000. His work is in several 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. The exhibition "Arthur Tress San Francisco 1964" debuted at the de Young Museum in San Francisco in 2012, and