{"product_id":"the-ramble-nyc-1969","title":"The Ramble, NYC 1969","description":"\u003ch3 class=\"p1\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe Ramble, NYC 1969\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003eArthur Tress \u003cbr\u003eStanley\/Barker \u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e112 pages\u003cbr\u003e31x31cm\u003cbr\u003eHard Cover, Dust Jacket, Silk screened\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eFrom STANLEY\/BARKER: In 1969, Arthur Tress began taking his camera with him on walks through the Ramble, an overgrown corner of Central Park that had become New York’s best-known outdoor meeting place for queer men. Designed as a picturesque woodland in the nineteenth century, by the late 1960s it had grown wild, a hidden, half-forgotten place of chance encounters in the middle of the city.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eFor a little over a year, Tress returned again and again, recording the everyday choreography of cruising and creating what is now recognised as the earliest known photographic record of outdoor cruising in a natural setting.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eHis images show the flow of men through the Ramble, some caught from a distance, others posed or gently staged in small scenes. He saw these photographs not just as documentation but as a kind of queer still life, part allegory, part dream.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eLong unseen, The Ramble is now considered a vital piece of New York’s queer history, part ethnography, part fantasy. More than fifty years later, it stands alongside a new generation of queer landscape projects that share its quiet focus on how bodies, longing, and hidden places shape each other.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eContaining an essay by art historian Jackson Davidow, \u003ci\u003eThe Ramble \u003c\/i\u003eis the first publication of this remarkable archive: an early portrait of a hidden world, a city’s wild corner, and an artist searching for himself among the trees.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stanley\/Barker","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45934840905785,"sku":"1-0135","price":82.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0742\/9878\/5849\/files\/TheRamble1781042632725.jpg?v=1781060235","url":"https:\/\/www.realmbooks.co\/products\/the-ramble-nyc-1969","provider":"Realm Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}