Duane Michals / Arthur Tress / Juliette Bates
Fictions
23.04 – 12.07.2014
Wednesday, april 30th, 2014, from 6 pm to 9 pm

For this spring exhibition, the Galerie Esther Woerdehoff is delighted to present the works of three photographers: Duane Michals, Arthur Tress and Juliette Bates. Two historic figures of American photography and a newcomer, united by their poetic vision of a reality staged and transformed by photography.

Arthur Tress (USA, *1940)
Born in 1940 in Brooklyn, Arthur Tress grew up near Luna Park in Coney Island and started photographing in the streets. Quickly, his images revealed a strangeness which he called himself “magical realism”: the appearance of the fantastic in a common world, as it would first seem. A girl catching goldfish in front of the Chateau de Breteuil, a boy with hands made of roots, or a man-silhouette emerging through smoke, ... although these photos-fictions used a documentary style, they all created dreamlike and subversive images, truly like a small theater of a fantasized reality. The gallery will also feature photographic collages: a new series in which Arthur Tress reconstructs some of his memories by associating pages of coloring books for children to photographs from his family album.