Where the camera is king: three photography exhibits
Fine art photography, three exhibitions “Arthur Tress: Rambles, Dreams, and Shadows,” plus “Sheila Metzner: From Life,” and Peter Fetterman’s “The Power of Photography” by Bondo Wyszpolski “Hobby Horses, Harlem River, Bronx, New York” (1970), by Arthur Tress, from the series “Open Space in the Inner City.” Gelatin silver print. Getty Museum Gift of J. Patrick and Patricia A. Kennedy © Arthur Tress Archive LLC 2019.168.2In the earlier part of his career, New York-based Arthur Tress felt that the reason contemporary photography often failed to move us personally was because it didn’t “touch upon the hidden life of the imagination and fantasy, which is hungry for stimulation.” Photography that “drowns in humanity” or simply “pleases us with mere aesthetically correct compositions” weren’t what he had in mind. What he hoped for were images that we could pray to, or that would scare us, or that would make us well. “Most of mankind’s art for the past 5,000 years was created for just those purposes. It seems absurd to stop now.” Those words were written in 1970, and it’s not clear if Tress would stand by them today, almost 54 years later, because his current exhibition at the Getty…
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