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...
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--th...
