Part 4: Different styles, one goal
Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.
Anselm Adams
Fourth appointment with the series of video reflections on contemplative photography and the various connections with Christian meditation.
This time we will consider Street Photography through the lenses of irony and self irony.
Irony in photography is one of the most powerful ways of expression, one of the most effective tools to reach and empathise with yourself and with your audience.
Let's have a look to the introductory video:
Video 4_1 - Introduction
Video 4_2 - Elliott Erwitt
We will be guided by some pictures of the very well known master of street photography and irony, the American photographer Elliot Erwitt (born 1928).
“One of the paradoxes of the mystical life is this: that a man cannot enter into the deepest centre of himself and pass through that centre into God, unless he is able to pass entirely out of himself and empty himself and give himself to other people in the purity of a selfless love”
Thomas Merton, New Seeds of Contemplation
Video 4_3 - Exercises
“We do not see things as they are, we see things as we are”
Anais Nin, quoted in Zen Camera
A picture from father Laurence Freeman, OSB
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