Easter Sunday, Stony Brook State Park, New York, 1963 by Minor White
The Minor White Archive, Princeton University Art Museum, bequest of Minor White © Trustees of Princeton University
My teacher Minor White approached photography as a deep inner practice and made an extensive experiential study of Zen Buddhism,
Creative Awakening with a Daily Practice in Photography
The illiterate of the future will be ignorant of the pen and the camera alike. —Lazlo Moholy-Nagy, 1934
Photography has rapidly become the dominant medium of the twenty-first century and most people now carry high quality cameras in their pockets. Yet many are unaware of the power of photography to bring them more fully into the present moment and help discover their authentic vision. Zen Camera teaches mindful attention through the medium of photography and guides readers to use photography as a means of awakening creativity and deep perception in the digital age. Following in the path of highly successful books such as The Artists Way by Julia Cameron and Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards, Zen Camera updates the principles found in these books and applies them to photography for a current audience—offering timeless wisdom through a contemporary lens.
The material found in Zen Camera has helped many people in my classes and has been distilled from 40 years of teaching photography in both college settings and workshops for the general public.
Publication February 2018, Ten Speed Press/Random House.