Behind the Hedges follows the success of Will Vogt's debut monograph, These Americans, and extends his inquiry into the American upper class. Here the excesses of youth have given way to the refined cadence of tradition.

His images draw power from the tension between proximity and distance, functioning as portraits of a class oriented toward preservation within a nation otherwise defined by reinvention. They depict a community adept at weathering change while maintaining its habit of self-reproduction.