The Ramble, NYC 1969

20/11/2025 - 20/05/2026

STANLEY BARKER 
 
 
 London

https://www.stanleybarker.co.uk/   

 

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.

The Ramble is 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.