Terry Barrett's book, Criticizing Photographs: An Introduction to Understanding Images, continues to enlighten and inspire. He provides words for what I have been suspecting all along as I've dived into the art of images and suggests many other ways to look and "make" images. Documentary and "straight" photography intrigue me because they really are about the fundamental function of seeing, but seeing informed by what in Buddhism is called sati - mindfulness, seeing the details and the whole all at once. Seeing, I'm discovering (as an increasingly more visually biased man), is experiencing. If it is not living itself, the difference is more conceptual than real.
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
In the Bath
Terry Barrett's book, Criticizing Photographs: An Introduction to Understanding Images, continues to enlighten and inspire. He provides words for what I have been suspecting all along as I've dived into the art of images and suggests many other ways to look and "make" images. Documentary and "straight" photography intrigue me because they really are about the fundamental function of seeing, but seeing informed by what in Buddhism is called sati - mindfulness, seeing the details and the whole all at once. Seeing, I'm discovering (as an increasingly more visually biased man), is experiencing. If it is not living itself, the difference is more conceptual than real.
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