Innisfree Garden, Millbrook, New York, 1983Gelatin silver print
10 × 80 in.
signed with additional notes by photographer on verso; dry mounted by John Yang on large matte
Refuting the presumed reproducibility of photography, each of Yang’s panoramic views of Innisfree Garden is a one-of-a-kind print, made with a vintage Cirkut camera that records a 360-degree sweep in a single exposure. The format resonates with the garden’s design, where linked vistas unfold in carefully choreographed sequence. Yang’s panoramas compress this experience into a seamless field of water, stone, plantings, and sky. Unrepeatable—shaped by shifting light, season, and camera movement—each image distills the act of moving through the garden into a singular, meditative vision that honors its interplay of openness, enclosure, and carefully framed sightlines.