  Photon absorption by a quark in one nucleon followed by its high momentum
transfer interaction with a quark in the other may produce two final-state
nucleons with high relative momentum. We sum the relevant quark rescattering
diagrams, to show that the scattering amplitude depends on a convolution
between the large angle $pn$ scattering amplitude, the hard photon-quark
interaction vertex and the low-momentum deuteron wave function. The computed
absolute values of the cross section are in reasonable agreement with the data.
