Simone Nieweg's latest book is a compilation of nearly every variety of agricultural cultivation, rang ing from small market gardens with vegetable beds and fruit trees to pastures, fallow land, forest fringes, arable land, and fields of grain. Without exception, Nieweg photographs her subjects in a soft, almost shadowless light that does not obscure the fine structure of her images. Her long exposure times require an absolutely breezeless day in order to capture images of plants and landscapes in hitherto unseen clarity and richness of detail. Nieweg's photographs tell of the unconventional...