description: Childhood dreams were what interested American photographer Arthur Tress when, in the late 1960s and 70s, he created his psychoanalytic “Dream Collector” series of images, which captured children’s nightmares in terrifying detail.“Dreams or nightmares were collected by conversations with children in schools, streets, or neighbourhood playgrounds. The children would be asked means of acting out their visions or to suggest ways of making them into visual actualities… These inventions often reflect the child’s inner life, his hopes and fears, as well as his symbolic transmutation of the external environment, his home or school, into manageable forms.”
language: English
title: Arthur Tress: The Dream Collector
titlecomplete: Arthur Tress: The Dream Collector
genres: Photography, Art
ratings_count: 20
publisher: Westover Publishing Company, Richmond, VA