Photographs

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This ongoing series taken in John Boyd Thacher State Park. The Park
sits atop a long and prominent ridge that overlooks the Mohawk Valley.
A path, which came to be known as the "Indian Ladder Trail," once
traversed the ridge and connected the valley below to the highlands
above. Yang is now photographing on that portion of the trail beneath
the cliffs, which today lies within the Park.

Gold-toned, P.O.P. contact prints, 11" x14"

Taken in an Orthodox Jewish cemetery in Maspeth, Queens, New York,
“Sepulchral portraits” refer to miniature portraits once placed on many
of Mount Zion’s tombstones. What remains of them -- and what they
have become -- is the subject of these photographs.
Book published in 2001 by D.A.P.

Gold-toned, P.O.P. contact prints, 5" x7"; 8" x 10"; 11' x 14".

Over the Door, 1990 – 1993

A photographic study of the ornamental stonework on New York City's
late 19th-century brownstones and tenements with a particular
emphasis on the faces, heads and busts adorning the keystones of
arches over entrance doorways.
Book published in 1995 by Princeton Architectural Press.

Platinum and gold-toned P.O.P contact prints, 5" x 7"
Also available as 10" x 14" platinum prints.

Landscapes, 1978– present

These calligraphic works, a continuing project, were taken mostly in
preserves, parks and sanctuaries -- pockets of wilderness -- in and
around New York City.

Gold-toned, P.O.P. or gelatin-silver contact prints, 8" x10"

A fishing village on an island off the coast of Brittany, the furthermost
western point of France.

Enlarged gelatin-silver prints.

The women of the Reeperbahn, taken with a Leica, 35 mm, while Yang
was serving in the U.S. Army stationed in Germany.

Enlarged gelatin-silver prints.