Summer Palace, Beijing, 1998

"MacDuff Everton updates travel photography in the same way that Ansel Adams updated 19th-century photography of the West. He captures strange and eloquent moments in which time, and the world, seem to stand still."

—Andy Grundberg, New York Times Photo Critic

A premier travel photographer, MacDuff Everton does much of his work in the panoramic format to give the viewer a greater sense of place. The subject of this photograph is the Summer Palace in Beijing, which is the largest imperial garden in all of China and is listed as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.  This image was made in conjunction with an Aperture monograph and traveling exhibition entitled China: Fifty Years Inside the People's Republic.

C-Print
Paper Size: 16 x 20 inches
Image Size: 8 x 18 7/8 inches
Edition of 100 and 10 Artist’s Proofs
Signed and numbered by the artist

MacDuff Everton (b. 1947, Pearl River, New York) earned a BA from the College of Creative Studies in 1981 and an MFA from the University of California in 1984. He is best known for his work with the Maya, primarily on the Yucatán Peninsula. Everton exhibits his photographs nationally and internationally, and his work is in the collections of various private and public institutions, including the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris; Brooklyn Museum, New York; British Museum, London; International Center of Photography, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; Musée de L’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland; Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico; Museum of Modern Art, New York; and New York Public Library, New York. He is represented by Janet Borden, Inc., New York, and Kathleen Ewing Gallery, Washington, D.C.