The title character of “The Tree,” a lyrical story of loss and longing, is a magnificent Moreton Bay fig. Like something out of a child’s book illustration, it dominates an edge-of-the-world landscape ...

There are a handful of deep symbolic "forms," as Joel Smith, the Peter C. Bunnell curator of photography at the Princeton University Art Museum, sees it. The circle, the spiral, the arrow, the grid, ...