Innisfree Garden, Millbrook, New York, 1982Gelatin silver print
8 × 10 in.
notes in pencil in photographer’s hand on print recto
Collins shaped Innisfree’s 185 acres into a unified yet varied composition, integrating natural topography with sculpted features, lakes, and streams. His design draws on centuries-old Chinese principles, where each view is composed as though for a painting. Yang embraced this sensibility, allowing stone, water, and vegetation to become his subjects. Waiting for light that revealed the garden’s structure, he framed scenes where human intention and natural form merge, translating the site’s philosophy of harmony into still, contemplative images.