Larry Lederman

Reviews of Garden Portraits

“Most consider the portrait and the landscape to be opposing visual expressions. In Garden Portraits: Experiences of Natural Beauty, photographer Larry Lederman turns that thinking on its head, capturing gardens with the tenderness and familiarity often reserved for a sitting subject.” - Flower Magazine

“Garden Portraits: Experiences of Natural Beauty captures stunning views and fleeting moments in public and private landscapes around the states of New York and Connecticut.” - Southampton Press

“There is much to learn about the placement of plants and garden elements ... and you'll turn to this book again and again for landscape design inspiration.” - Garden Design

Larry Lederman has won a Victorian Society in America Book Award for Olana!

Larry Lederman quoted in Architectural Digest about

The Abby Aldrich Garden in Maine

“Farrand had never traveled to Asia, and Abby Rockefeller spent only a few months there, so the garden is a work of imagination,” says Lederman, whose book also features the grounds of Kykuit, the family’s estate in Pocantico Hills, New York. “They knew it wasn’t authentic—at the center was an English-style cutting garden of summer-blooming flowers for the house—but those ladies didn’t care. It’s a genius conceit, and it absolutely knocks your socks off.”  

Best book he ever received as a gift? Richard Powers stated in his NY Times Book Review profile it was Magnificent Trees!

From the Intro to Magnificent Trees

‘‘Larry has developed a particular, lyrical, and artistic view of the Garden,” says Gregory Long, President of The New York Botanical Garden. ‘‘Throughout the Garden’s 125-year history, no other observers have known and documented these collections so thoroughly.’’

From the NYBG Blog Plant Talk

Larry’s photographs present a perspective on these places that is unlike the work of any other photographer I have seen. His pictures never seem static or staged—they draw the viewer in by somehow capturing and revealing the fleeting and dynamic quality of light reflecting off flowers and foliage.

Todd Forrest, Arthur Ross VP for Horticulture and Living Collections