>...light that turns the otherwise familiar scene >to the hand-tinted postcards of a dream Like this excerpt from a poem by Eleanor Wilner, this photograph captures the harshness of the Arizona sun at noon and the peculiar clarity of the desert light. While a visiting professor at the University of Arizona, William Gary Larson took a series of such photographs of human habitation in the surrounding desert. Wilner wrote her poem in response to the photographs, and Larson in turn named the photographs the "Tucson Gardens" pictures after her poem.
![[From the Domestic Landscape series], William Larson, 1978](https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/a77993b5-0282-47da-b729-5f8993babb01/full/!1200,1200/0/default.jpg)
