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Arthur Tress San Francisco 1964 by James Ganz.Photographs by Arthur Tress, Poems by Guillaume Apollinaire. Arthur Tress: Fantastic Voyage: Photographs 1956-2000.Male of the Species: Four Decades of Photography by Arthur Tress.Oxford: Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, 1986. Text by Duane Michaels, Michel Tournier and A.D.

New York: New York State Council on the Arts, 1971 Open Space in the Inner City: Ecology and the Urban Environment.Tress's photograph of boys playing on a municipal incineration plant and landfill dump at Gravesend Bay, taken for the Documerica program. Tress resided in Cambria, California, for 25 years, and now lives in San Francisco. In the late 1960s, he made a series of surreal photographs about children's dreams, using staged scenarios. The work was subsequently exhibited at San Francisco's de Young Museum. Tress took over 900 photographs that were later shelved until 2009 when he rediscovered a stack of vintage prints while organising his sister's estate after her death. Tress spent the spring and summer of 1964 in San Francisco, documenting the 1964 Republican National Convention that nominated Barry Goldwater, civil rights demonstrations at segregated car dealerships on Van Ness Avenue, and The Beatles' 1964 world tour. The cultures to which he was introduced would play a role in his later work. He observed many secluded tribes and cultures and was fascinated by the roles played by the shaman of the different groups of people. While living in France, he traveled to Japan, Africa, Mexico, and throughout Europe. After graduation he moved to Paris to attend film school, but soon dropped out.

He studied painting at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1962. Tress attended Abraham Lincoln High School in Coney Island. He has said that "growing up as a gay man in the 1950s was not easy, especially at school." At age 12, he began to photograph circus freaks and dilapidated buildings around Coney Island in New York City, where he grew up. His sister was the lawyer and gay rights advocate Madeleine Tress. The youngest of four children in a divorced family, he spent time in his early life with both his father, who remarried and lived in an upper-class neighborhood, and his mother, who remained single after the divorce. Tress comes from a Jewish background his parents immigrated from Europe. It was taken for the Environmental Protection Agency's Documerica program to photographically document subjects of environmental concern. Photograph by Tress of an abandoned car and unfinished apartment house at Breezy Point, Queens, in 1973.