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The most compelling image is William Harper’s “Transmigration,” a brilliant, nighttime time-lapse study of the sky streaked by involving tangles of lines of light made by flickering stars and airplanes. Harper shot the image from Evanston and captured a miniature Chicago skyline defined by tiny points of light as a large half-moon decomposes into a welter of curved lines above it. The effect is breathtaking; we see a wild light show, as though mounted by the gods, dwarfing even the highest skyscrapers. It is a perfect instance of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy’s “New Vision,” his idea to deploy photography to reveal to us sights we could never glimpse with our naked eye. 

Blessed is the man who has found his work

Inscription on the Ragdale garden bower - visible here.