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Derry Moore, the acclaimed British photographer of interiors, gardens, and portraits, has traveled the world since the 1970s, amassing a portfolio of images that has signally enriched the pages of AD.
That doesn’t mean that that Moore was merely sipping tea as Don, Henderson, and the camera crew toiled.
Instead, he photographed every garden that was visited for his and Don’s book, Japanese Gardens: A Journey (Two Roads), and had his eyes opened simultaneously.
Says Moore in a tone of wonder, “Everything is so curiously abstract: Really, they’re nothing at all like gardens as Westerners understand them.”Another garden featured in Japanese Gardens: A Journey (Two Roads).
“A book about American gardens,” Moore says, adding that he recently traveled from Miami to Charleston, South Carolina, to Oak Spring Farm in Upperville, Virginia—the rural home of Bunny Mellon, his onetime mother-in-law—in search of stateside beauty.