From Miss Rosen’s article for Huck:

In 1968, Brooklyn-born photographer Arthur Tress, then 28, began making photographs in The Ramble with his Hasselblad. As a participant and observer, Tress crafted an intricate map of queer desire and clandestine pleasure, unfolding in plain sight among young men signalling to one another in discreet glances, gestures, and codes. They preened and posed for one another with the yearning for a love that dared not speak its name – at a time when to do so was still a crime.

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