Elget Esser: Sonnabend. (Reviews: New York).(Brief Article)

A relatively young photographer from Germany, Elger Esser specializes in landscapes, particularly landscapes that are flat. He likes beaches and wetlands, places where the single strongest visual mark may be the horizon, a straight line dividing the view. In Saone, France, 2000, that line is virtually all there is: The river, apparently in flood, fills the image.

A scattering of leafless, light-skinned saplings to the left, their trunks submerged, and an unobtrusive row of half-sunk trees and brush in the middle distance may mark the near bank; then there is only water until the ...

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