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Stephen Wilkes. Day to Night

By (author) Lyle Rexer, Photographs by Stephen Wilkes

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If you were to stand in one spot at an iconic location for 30 hours and simply observe, never closing your eyes, you still wouldnâ€™t 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. Day to Night presents 60 epic panoramas created between 2009 and 2022, shot everywhere from Africaâ€™s Serengeti to the Blue Lagoon in Iceland, from the Grand Canyon to Coney Island, from Trafalgar Square to Times 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. The book also features extraordinary detailsâ€”works 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 â€œNo more than two questions per customer.â€ â€œIt is exactly these small stories, these details, that draw people into the photographs,â€ says Wilkes. Once discovered, these mini narratives lend each composition a personal, candid feel. This collection takes us on a seamless trip from dawn to dark across the worldâ€™s most iconic locations, unveiling the unique ebb and flow of man-made and natural landmarks like never before.