SAHARA Highlights: Green

by SAHARA Co-Editors Jacqueline Spafford and Mark Hinchman, and Associate Editor Jeannine Keefer | Nov 14, 2023

This month’s highlights focus on the many green spaces and landscapes captured in the SAHARA collection. Locations span the globe and serve as spaces for contemplation, commemoration, recreation, work, or simply as the landscape around a structure. The vibrancy of these greens can be affected by the time of day, the film or camera used, or your screen. 

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Unknown landscape/garden planners from Kalisz and Josef Chrzanowski, “The Medieval Castle” at The Belzig von Kreutz Family Summer Estate Garden, ca 1880–1900, Koscielec, Poland. Photo: Makary Gorzynski, 2012


Francisco Prieto Moreno, Sultan’s Garden (Courtyard of the Cypresses), 1302–1309, gardens rebuilt 1931–1951, Granada, Spain. Photo: Nathaniel Walker, 2005


Edwin Lutyens, Folly Farm, home built in 17th century, expanded by Lutyens in 1906 and 1912, Sulhamstead, England. Photo: Richard Longstreth, 2012


Yejia Garden (Ye Family Garden), 1920s, Yangpu District, Shanghai, China. Photo: Qing Mei


People’s Park, Lily Pond, after 1949, Shanghai, China. Photo: Dell Upton, 2016


Monastery and Temple Gardens, Thien Mu Pagoda complex, 1601–2014, Huế, Vietnam. Photo: Jackie Spafford, 2014


Green and Wicks, Martha T. Williams Camp, 1901–1904, Old Forge, NY. Photo: Richard Guy Wilson


Claude Monet, Monet’s Water Garden, 1893–1926, Giverny, France. Photo: Allan T. Kohl, 1994


Vals, 1910–1960, Vals Platz, Switzerland. Photo: Esther Choi, 2014




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