Facing up
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Facing up
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Description
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Featuring on the front cover a shadowy photograph of a man in silhouette and only four words, it is not until opening the book that the title and full author name are apparent, and it becomes clear that this is a photography book. The photographer, Arthur Tress (1940-), is described by Yves Navarre in the book’s introduction as a “prowler, voyeur, trickster, devourer, lover of his city and its life”. The backdrop to the sixty-five black-and-white photographs is New York, depicted predominantly as a place of urban decay. Juxtaposed with the cityscapes are (mainly) naked men posed in positions and with objects that explore ideas of male sexuality and power, dreams and the subconscious. Still producing work, Tress was recently described as “one of the most innovative American photographers of the postwar era”.
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All images within the Seized Books! Online exhibition are to be used exclusively for the promotion of the library and to facilitate research. If you download and subsequently share any images from the exhibition website, you agree it is your responsibility to ensure appropriate usage is upheld for that image. Commercial use or distribution of this content is not permitted without prior permission of the copyright holder. Copyright to content may be held by authors, artists, or their heirs, or may be in the public domain. Senate House Library does not automatically claim copyright on any images shown in the Seized Books! online exhibition.
