Renate Aller Oceanscapes Author:Richard Woodward, Petra Roettig, Jasmin Seck German-born photographer Renate Aller has been photographing the Atlantic Ocean for over a decade, from a single point on Long Island's fabled coastline. Her images capture the shifting colors and textures of the sky and water, and the beauty and grandeur of the ocean, providing a rich document of what has made the Hamptons such an integral aspe... more »ct of New York life. The sublime beauty of this Atlantic view, which Aller connects to the great nineteenth-century German Romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich, also invokes metaphors for the landscapes of human emotions. Aller's viewpoint is static, but the changing weather and light allow for a diverse series of images that invite a plethora of associations. Essays place Aller's work both in the context of landscape photography and the history of images of the Hamptons.« less