Arthur Tress is a renowned American photographer known for his work in surrealism and documentary photography. Around 1972 Tress consciously began to include what he called “the more intimate spheres of a gay sexuality and homoerotic fantasy life.” Facing Up (1977-1980), alternately titled Phallic Phantasy, was Tress’s first explicitly conscious exploration of his sexuality in which he exclusively photographed male nudes. The full collection is held at the Stanford Libraries.
I’d not heard of this photographer. What a wonderful set of pictures!
Fantasy play and indulgence
Great photographs!!
Sometimes I’ve marveled how much the close up textures of penises remind me of brain tissue.
My vacuum sucker fantasy.
The cock is soooo beautiful, it’s doing all the sucking
Once again, Seb, you push us to look at naked male bodies entangled in weird fantasies and hard realities. These photographs are amazing. What strikes me immediately is that no matter how punishingly sadistic the entanglements are, the men are beautiful. Tress’s black and white photography captures every detail of that beauty.