Inspiration and Resources #5
Tom Rankiin
Photographers of Interest:
Silence: The Mystery of Wholeness - Robert Sardello
With its beautifully rich prose, Robert Sardello's newest book invites us to experience silence as a companion presence--a creative heart-felt experience that renews, restores, and deepens the body's response to the internal and external world. Drawing on images and ideas from the Trials of St. Anthony, anthroposophy, depth psychology, and phenomenology, the book delves deeply into the subtleties of silence, exploring the phenomenon as a source of wholeness and revitalization.
Octave of Prayer: Minor White
The theme, Octave of Prayer, comes from my personal realization that at times photography and prayer overlap. I first noticed this intersecting of the two while I was a mid-century soldier not allowed to photograph during boot camp. I turned my energies to religion and learned to savor each word of the Lord’s Prayer daily. I was surprised and pleased, if not grateful, to find that the energies exercised in prayer were the same as I had brought to making photographs.
Thomas Merton:
A Hidden Wholeness: The Visual World of Thomas Merton
Beholding Paradise: The Photographs of Thomas Merton