Feb 14th, 2026 - Photographer Arthur Tress, now 85, revisits his early work in “The Ramble, NYC 1969,” a new book and exhibition at Chelsea’s Clamp gallery.
Shot in the wooded Ramble section of Central Park, the images capture the hidden, complex world of gay men who met there during the late 1960s. Blending candid moments with staged intimacy, Tress documents desire, secrecy, and solitude in what he calls a “poetic documentary.”
The series reveals both a personal diary of queerness and a rare historical glimpse of a community that existed in plain sight yet remained unseen.
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