ARTHUR TRESS (1940- ) A suite of 15 master set photographs, from Tress' project Shadow. 1974; printed 1975. Silver prints, the images measuring 7½ inches (19.1 cm.) square, and slightly smaller, the mounts 14x11 inches (35.6x27.9 cm.), each with Tress' signature, title, and numeric notation in ink on mount recto.
Provenance Acquired directly from the Artist; to the Collection of Neil Robert Berzak
Representative of the transformative change from documentary to personal and expressive motifs during the 1970s, this group of photographs was selected for Tress' book Shadow (New York: Avon Books, 1975) and very few were ever sold or put on the public market. The CCP Tucson owns a complete set of the 100 used for the book. The Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, SFMOMA, Getty Museum, and the Bibliothèque Nationale of Paris own a large selection of prints dedicated to this project.
The titles refer to the 13 chapters of the book, and their number to their placement within the chapter's sequence.
