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A graceful Japanese bridge spans the lily pond, willows and water lilies adorn the banks, and the sunlight plays in the dense foliage of the trees--thus did Claude Monet (1840-1926), the preeminent French Impressionist, paint his garden, which he laid out himself during the 1880s and 1890s in the village of Giverny in Upper Normandy. Since then, Giverny has become a place of pilgrimage for artists, art historians, and garden lovers--as well as for photographer Elger Esser with his gifted eye for the beauty of French domestic landscapes. Interestingly, he chose to photograph the enchantment of...

"Gestern war ich auf dem Mont-Saint-Michel. Hier müsste man die Superlative der Bewunderung auftürmen, so wie der Mensch die Bauwerke auf die Felsen und die Natur die Felsen auf die Bauwerke getürmt hat", schrieb Victor Hugo 1836 nach einem Besuch der wohl berühmtesten Abtei der Welt in einer Mischung aus Entzücken und Entsetzen. Vor 1000 Jahren wurde der Grundstein für dieses einzigartige architektonische Ensemble auf einer Insel zwischen Normandie und Bretagne gelegt. Es begann als frühromanische Kirche, wurde im Laufe der Jahrhunderte immer mehr erweitert, erwies sich als...

Elger Esser produces photographic vedutas of land-scapes and buildings that exude the tranquility and romantic spirit of the early 19th century. His photos of the sea, marshlands, rivers, or city panoramas would seem likewise to originate in that century, if it was not for the fact that they are quite definitely taken in color, a medium in which Elger Esser feels at home. The pale, almost faded hues that Esser aspires to create attract us as if they were some vague memory, acting like a nostalgic magnet pulling us back into a past that always remains remote. Yet Esser's pictures are the...