Dip into these pages and join the hero, a fisherman, as he sails off on a voyage of discovery. With wry humour, the author draws the reader into a special world: each of the 69 scenes in the tale is a tableau created out of oddball flea-market finds and staged within an antique fish tank. Arthur Tress took the tank with him on various locations all over America, from beaches to fields, and the reader travels with the intrepid hero as he learns all about the pitfalls of humanity, how to be a better fisherman and at last, how to live and fish in harmony with nature.
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"Arthur Tress has been photographing for more than forty years, creating a diverse body of work that has been extensively shown and published and will be the subject of a traveling retrospective originating at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington D.C. in 2001. He has published fifteen books, many now cult classics, among them Tea Pot Opera (1988) and requiem for a Paperweight (1993)."
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Contemporary art meets environmental consciousness,
By Cristina G. Chamberlain (California) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Fish Tank Sonata (Paperback)
Fish Tank Sonata is a book filled with gorgeous and unusual photography paired with thoughtfully written poetry. Both the photographs and poetry touch on social, economic and environmental issues in an interesting and new way. Outstanding!
4.0 out of 5 stars
a whimsical delight,
By mm (USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Fish Tank Sonata (Paperback)
Fish Tank Sonata by Arthur Tress contains a whimsical series of photographic images of an antique fish tank placed in unlikely outdoor environments. Kitschy knick knacks and vintage objects create delightful little tableaus inside the tank. Each image is accompanied by poetry, which is unremarkable, but the images more than make up for the text. It's a quirky, unusual picture book, one that I find myself coming back to periodically.
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