Innisfree Garden, Millbrook, New York, 1982Gelatin silver print
8 × 10 in.
photographer’s credit stamp on print recto and notes in pencil photographer’s hand
Beck and Collins envisioned Innisfree as a journey, a sequence of framed moments set within a larger landscape. Yang’s photographs mirror this experience, guiding the viewer from shaded paths to sunlit expanses, from intimate ponds to wide vistas. Trained as an architect, he brought an acute awareness of proportion and spatial rhythm, attuned to the subtle alignments that give the garden its quiet authority. His prints distill these transitions into moments of balance between permanence and flux.