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Thoughts on Photography and Meditation
The recent phenomenon of mass accessibility to digital cameras has produced a generation that records everything, even the most benign moments. While this means that photographs have become a form of mass communication, it also means that millions of thoughtless photographs are taken on any given day. However, and despite the capriciousness of the art market, the demand for conscious, reflective photography has become even greater. For instance, the works of Andreas Gursky, one of the world’s most highly paid photographers, have demanded close to a million US dollars for a single largescale photograph.
Increasingly, people in the digital age of photography are beginning to crave their own inherent form ...
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