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DARKNESS VISIBLE by Michael Kimmelman
American photographer Neil Folberg brings the heavens down to earth in an astonishing new book.

Like his teacher Ansel Adams, the American photographer Neil Folberg is an evangelist of nature. Neither can you miss Folberg's reverence for the natural world around him.

In his latest book, CELESTIAL NIGHTS (Aperture). it's the deserts of Israel and the Sinai, beneath improbable skies: the remains of a fifth century synagogue whose thrusting silhouette is uncannily mimicked by the constellation overhead, the ruins and stars in heavenly concord; and a night scene of planted tress in the Negev, an Israeli oasis in the desert under a billion lights.

But wonderment is the ultimate subject of these photographs: separate exposures of landscape and sky digitally stitched together. As computer concoctions, they share a technique with the fashionable photographs of art stars like Andreas Gursky, for whom amazement is also the expected response.
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Ancient olive press in the Judean Desert under the lights of the constellation Sagittarius. Original silver print from an edition of 49 plus artist's proofs, this is an artist's proof. From the series "Celestial Nights".