The Lost Works of Caspar David Friedrich (2007-2009)

The Japanese photographer Hiroyuki Masuyama travelled through Europe in the footsteps of the 19th century painters Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840) and J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851), who recorded their travels in romantic and dramatic paintings, respectively. Masuyama made reproductions of these paintings, assembled from thousands of photos that he took in the places that the painters had set down on canvas 160 years before. These photo montages are lit from the inside, giving these iconic artworks a whole new, contemporary dimension.