I am currently reading "The Zen of Creativity - Cultivating Your Artistic Life" by John Daido Loori and have just come across this quote:
- MINOR WHITE
Earlier in the book the author attended a workshop given by White and quotes him:
- MINOR WHITE
Does this process resonate with anyone?
"Spirit always stands still long enough
for the photographer It has chosen."
- MINOR WHITE
Earlier in the book the author attended a workshop given by White and quotes him:
"Venture into the landscape without expectations. Let your subject find you.When you approach it, you will feel resonance, a sense of recognition. If, when you move away, the resonance fades, or if it gets stronger as you approach, you’ll know you have found your subject. Sit with your subject and wait for your presence to be acknowledged. Don’t try to make a photograph, but let your intuition indicate the right moment to release the shutter. If, after you’ve made an exposure, you feel a sense of completion, bow and let go of the subject and your connection to it. Otherwise, continue photographing until you feel the process is complete.
The state of mind of the photographer while
creating is a blank.....[but] It is a very active state
of mind really, a very receptive state of mind, ready
at an instant to grasp an image, yet with no image
pre-formed in it at any time."
- MINOR WHITE
Does this process resonate with anyone?