{"product_id":"the-ramble-nyc-1969","title":"The Ramble, NYC 1969","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 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\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\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\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\u003eContaining an essay by art historian Jackson Davidow, \u003cem\u003eThe Ramble \u003c\/em\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":"Arthur Tress","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52967804404017,"sku":null,"price":83.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0676\/1191\/8641\/files\/f28e2a59-0871-42da-9dda-568fe65c7c41.jpg?v=1772509346","url":"https:\/\/phtsdr.store\/products\/the-ramble-nyc-1969","provider":"phtsdrstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}