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paul klee, “nächtlicher fels”

miquel llonch,  “el pla del penedès I” from “penedès”

john mann, “untitled (ocean)” x “untitled (divide)”

ernst haas, “central park, spring”

william eggleston, from “untitled chromes 1969-74″

lu yuanmin, from “shanghainese”

Tokihiro Sato is one of Japan’s best known artists working in photography. Trained as a sculptor, he has been using photography since the late 1980s to express his ideas about light and space. In an ongoing series that he describes as “breath graphs” or “photo respiration,” tiny points of light or illuminated lines record his movements through space. Using a large-format camera set on a tripod and timed for exposures that may last from one to three hours, he moves quickly through the described space. When shooting in daylight, he flashes a mirror at the sun. At night, or indoors, he uses a flashlight. The resulting photographs capture exquisitely detailed scenes punctuated by pinpoints or linear patterns of light that depict the artist’s presence but not his image.

yasuhiro ogawa, from “slowly down the river” x raghubir singh, “munnar, periyar road, kerala”

robert adams, “longmont, colorado” from “summer nights, walking”

bill owens, “pool” from “the LA documentary project”

esther bubley, “harbor story” x evzen sobek, from the series “ecce homo”

alec soth, from the series “looking for love” 

john humble, “jefferson school, lennox, july 8, 1980″ 

toshifumi serizawa x meghna singh

Maira Kalman, from “The Principles of Uncertainty”

Shuntaro Tanikawa Translated by William I. Elliott and Shuntaro Tanikawa