Photography is my method for defining the confusing world that rushes constantly toward me. It is my defensive attempt to reduce our daily chaos to a…

- Arthur Tress

The photographic image has great possibilities. The magical photograph attempts to go beyond the immediate context of the recorded experience into th…

- Arthur Tress

The photographic frame is no longer used as a documentary window into undisturbed private lives, but as a stage on which the subjects consciously dir…

- Arthur Tress

Perhaps why so much of today's photography doesn't grab us or mean anything to our personal lives is that it fails to touch upon the hidden life of t…

- Arthur Tress

I believe it is the photographer's function to reveal that which is concealed, even if it be repugnant to the majority, not merely to record what we …

- Arthur Tress

My urge to photograph is activated by an almost biological instinct for preservation from disorder. The camera is a mechanical apparatus that extends…

- Arthur Tress

The gay life is filled with as much cruelty and loneliness as the heterosexual life... I search into my dreams or desires and try to ask myself how t…

- Arthur Tress

Photography has an amazing ability to capture the fine detail of surface textures. But far too often these intricate patterns are loved by the photog…

- Arthur Tress