Stephen Wilkes\u2019s extraordinary panoramas depict our most famous landmarks from dawn to dusk. He captures thousands of single exposures, carefully editing and blending them into one seamless composition that shows the passage of time. With details highlighting the individual stories captured within each multi-moment image, this collection unveils a new way of seeing some of the world\u2019s most iconic locations.<\/p>\n
If you were to stand in one spot at an iconic location for 30 hours and simply observe, never closing your eyes, you still wouldn\u2019t be able to take in all the detail and emotion found in a Stephen Wilkes panoramic photograph. Not only does Wilkes shoot over 1,500 exposures from a fixed angle, he also distills this visual information afterward in his studio, painstakingly composing selected frames into a single image.<\/p>\n
Day to Night<\/em> presents 60 epic panoramas created between 2009 and 2018, shot everywhere from Africa\u2019s Serengeti to the Champs-\u00c9lys\u00e9es in Paris, from the Grand Canyon to Coney Island, from Trafalgar Square to Red Square. Each composition is a labor of love as well as patience. Wilkes waited more than two years to gain permission to photograph Pope Francis celebrating Easter mass in the Vatican, ultimately producing a vivid tableau in which the pontiff appears 10 times.<\/p>\n The book also features extraordinary details\u2014works of art in their own right that highlight the stories contained within each image. A bride makes her way through Central Park; in Tanzania, zebras gather around a near-invisible watering hole during a drought; in Rio de Janeiro, surfers come and go while a man holds a sign reading \u201cNo more than two questions per customer.\u201d \u201cIt is exactly these small stories, these details, that draw people into the photographs,\u201d says Wilkes. Once discovered, these mini narratives lend each composition a personal, candid feel.<\/p>\n This collection takes us on a seamless trip from dawn to dark across the world\u2019s most iconic locations, unveiling the unique ebb and flow of man-made and natural landmarks like never before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Stephen Wilkes\u2019s extraordinary panoramas depict our most famous landmarks from dawn to dusk. He captures thousands of single exposures, carefully editing and blending them into one seamless composition that shows the passage of time. With details highlighting the individual stories captured within each multi-moment image, this collection unveils a new way of seeing some of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":44236,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[13533,4517],"product_tag":[6478,154,6632,6121,12220,1185],"class_list":["post-44231","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-books","product_cat-photography-en","product_tag-landscapes","product_tag-monographs","product_tag-photographers","product_tag-photography","product_tag-photomontage-en","product_tag-world-en","pa_author_att-lyle-rexer-en","pa_author_att-stephen-wilkes-en","pa_cover-hardcover","pa_format-42-x-33-cm-en","pa_isbn-9783836562690-en","pa_language-eng-f-ger","pa_pages-260-en","pa_published-2019-05-20-en","pa_publisher-taschen-en-en","first","outofstock","sale","sold-individually","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"yoast_head":"\n