Will Minor
Will Minor
photography dark rooms
We emphasized the creativeness that happens at the moment of seeing over the kind that takes place in the dark room.
order together synthesis
In putting images together I become active, and excitement is of another order - synthesis overshadows analysis.
dream eye space
Camera and eye are together a time machine with which the mind and human being can do the same kind of violence to time and space as dreams.
self-worth giving cameras
If I have anything to give you through camera, it must be of myself. … A gnawing burns inside … to make something of myself worth giving.
photography responsibility goal
The development of a love of medium and a responsibility for one's own pictures is an overall goal.
photography responsibility skills
Different levels of photography require different levels of understanding and skill. A "press the button, let George do the rest" photographer needs little or no technical knowledge of photography. A zone system photographer takes more responsibility. He visualizes before he presses the button, and afterwards calibrates for predictable print values.
photography grandchildren wish
Some of the young photographers today enter photography where I leave off. My "grandchildren" astound me. What I worked for they seem to be born with. So I wonder where Their affirmations of Spirit will lead. My wish for them is that their unfolding proceeds to fullness of Spirit, however astonishing or anguished their lives.
photography taught students
Students were taught by doing.
self mirrors fool
When I looked at things for what they are I was fool enough to persist in my folly and found that each photograph was a mirror of my Self.
looks tunes photographer
I have often photographed when I am not in tune with nature but the photographs look as if I had been. So I conclude that something in nature says, 'Come and take my photograph.' So I do, regardless of how I feel.
moving way sometimes
Watching the way the current moves a blade of grass - sometimes I've seen that happen and it has just turned me inside out.
intuition mind trying
Sometimes we work so fast that we don't really understand what's going on in front of the camera. We just kind of sense that, 'Oh my God, it's significant!' and photograph impulsively while trying to get the exposure right. Exposure occupies my mind while intuition frames the images.
fall creating mind
The state of mind of the photographer creating is a blank. I might add that this condition exists only at special times, namely when looking for pictures. -Something keeps him from falling off curbs, down open manholes, into bumpers of skidding trucks while in this condition but goes off duty at other times. . . . This is a very special kind of blank. A very active state of mind really, it is a very receptive state. . .
play roles moments
While we cannot describe its appearance (the equivalent), we can define its function. When a photograph functions as an Equivalent we can say that at that moment, and for that person the photograph acts as a symbol or plays the role of a metaphor for something that is beyond the subject photographed.