Books
The Picture Not Taken: On Life and Photography
The Hudson Valley: A Cultural Guide
Great Trees of New York City: A Guide
Essays and Articles
“Death of a Tree,” New York Review of Books Online, June 29, 2025.
“Some Observations in the Galapagos (and elsewhere),” Orion, Winter 2024.
“The Loss of an Ailanthus,” Arnoldia, Winter 2023. (Notable Essay, Best American Essays, 2024)
“The Beauty of the Camera,” Agni, Spring 2023.
“My Father’s Green Album,” Salmagundi, No. 210-211, Spring-Summer 2021. (Notable Essay, Best American Essays, 2022.)
“What I wanted to tell you about the wind,” Orion, Spring 2021. (Editor´s Choice.)
“VR,” Prism International, Issue Number 58.3, Spring 2020 (“Sprawl”). (Notable Essay, Best American Essays 2021.)
“The Picture Not Taken,” Fiction Magazine Issue Number 64, September 2019. (Notable Essay, Best American Essays 2020.)
“The Ancients: Lake George’s Ancient Trees,” Co-authored with Neil Pederson. Adirondack Life, May/June 2014
“Trees of New York: Deeply Rooted,” Cabinet, Winter 2012/13, Issue 48.
Catalogues
30/30, an exhibition catalogue, Planthouse Books, October 2019.
Contributor
The Countryside of Aphrodisias (Ann Arbor, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, 2017)
Waterproofing New York (New York: Terreform, Inc., 2015)
Aphrodisias V: The Aphrodisias Regional Survey (Darmstadt/Mainz, Germany: Philipp von Zabern, 2012).
Archaeology and the Cities of Asia Minor in Late Antiquity (Ann Arbor: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, 2011)
New York: A Photographer’s City (New York: Rizzoli, 2011)
100 New York Photographers (New York: Schiffer Books, 2009)
New York City Trees: a Field Guide for the Metropolitan Area (New York: Columbia University Press, 2002)
Insight Guide, Italy (Singapore, APA Productions, 1986–contributor)
Insight Guide: New York (Singapore, APA Productions, 1986–contributor)
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