Be Still

Be still with yourself
Until the object of your attention
Affirms your presence
             --Minor White

Minor White, Happy Farmyard, Grand, 1941 [MOMA]

Included in an Aperture monograph on Minor White is a list of selected books from his personal library. It reveals an interest in depth psychology, meditation, especially Zen meditation, astrology, Gurdjieff, the Tao, and other aspects of Eastern thought. 
I am trying to decide whether this orientation is necessarily revealed in his photographs.  Certainly they have presence.  But the images of many other photographers do also.  Did his meditative orientation inform him and support his personal experience in making photographs more than it did his images?



[Minor White: Rites & Passages. Aperture Monograph, 1978.]