From: Thor Bols (thorbols@hotmail.com)
Date: 05/15/01-10:49:18 AM Z
One last Minor White quote:
"The meditation technique has been put into practice and it finally dawned
on me that photographs can be made while sitting quietly looking at nothing,
seeing nothing, camera packed away."
With this, out discussion comes full circle, for surely THIS is the best way
to use those big cameras. Certainly easier on the back.
>From: terry roth <terryroth@earthlink.net>
>Reply-To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
>To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
>Subject: Re: Eye Is a Camera
>Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 09:31:29 -0700
>
> > Minor, who partly founded my department, and taught here for a few
>years,
> > did find thoughtful company in ideas perpetrated by Zen.
> >
>
>Your comments were insightful, Jack. I dropped the quote from White onto
>the list because I was just re-reading his letters in "Rites and Passages".
>I think the "become a camera" quote means just that---
>become transparent, let the camera link the eye and the heart, not the
>brain. Don't just be a camera operator.
>
> White's involvement with the Gurdjief movement was long---from the
>late
>50's until his death in 1976. His work, sometimes symbolic, become more
>perceptive and "mystical" toward the end, reflecting the Gurdjief
>principle"Wake up!"---do not be constrained by the intellect. His
>eastern-oriented philosophy turned off a lot of folks in the conservative
>circles, but his work is incredibly strong. I was exclaiming about a
>picture of his, an indoor shot of a windowsill with backlit linen curtains,
>and an intense reflection of sunlight on the wall, when my wife remarked
>"everything we see is made of light". Minor would have loved that !
>
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