An almost eerie stillness pervades Lynn Geesaman’s 1999 photograph at Parc de Jeurre, an estate with gardens southwest of Paris, in a show of the late photographer’s strikingly beautiful photos from the 90s and early ‘00s at Yancey Richardson Gallery. Here, no breeze sways the orderly rows of trees broken by the trunk of an older tree in the foreground. The contrast between the strict planning of the planting and a sense of unpredictability represented by the soft, almost abstracting focus is typical of the show’s selection of Geesaman’s work and lends the photographs a surprising, dreamlike quality. (On view in Chelsea through Feb 28th).
