Pacific Heights Mansionsearly career · San Francisco
The phenomena of life may be likened unto a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, the glistening dew, or lightning flash, and thus they ought to be contemplated.Diamond Sutra, chosen by Minor White for Aperture 17:2
Soft-focus, surrealist, dreamlike — the mansions and gardens of San Francisco's Pacific Heights were the first body of work to earn Peter de Lory recognition outside his immediate circle. The English photographer Tony Ray-Jones singled it out as genuinely original.
In 1973, this work — titled “the room” — became the frontispiece of Aperture Volume 17, Number 2, chosen by Minor White: the very first image in the issue, before any text. → The full story.