1st Sailing - The Haiku Foundation http://www.thehaikufoundation.org/2009/07/08/1st-sailing/comment-page-3/#comment-351 Peter Yovu Sat, 18 Jul 2009 22:08:49 +0000 http://thehaikufoundation.org/?p=3492#comment-351 Follow up to last post . When I said "if there was ever a haiku photographer... it was H C-B" I was referring to one aspect of the art of haiku, to what we usually refer to as "the haiku moment". Cartier-Bresson, not only in his photos but in his writings, is brilliantly linked to the aspirations and practices of those who write in that fashion, and I believe much can be learned from him. But if you accept, as I do, that there are other aspects and possibilities re: haiku, than it is possible to look at and learn from other photographers. One might go to Minor White, for example, for sacred and inner geometries; and one might go to Jerry Uelsmann or Robert ParkeHarrison for work that corresponds to gendai haiku, or at least some aspects of it. The connections between haiku and photography go far beyond "snapshot". Click on my name for Minor White photo. Follow up to last post . When I said “if there was ever a haiku photographer… it was H C-B” I was referring to one aspect of the art of haiku, to what we usually refer to as “the haiku moment”. Cartier-Bresson, not only in his photos but in his writings, is brilliantly linked to the aspirations and practices of those who write in that fashion, and I believe much can be learned from him. But if you accept, as I do, that there are other aspects and possibilities re: haiku, than it is possible to look at and learn from other photographers. One might go to Minor White, for example, for sacred and inner geometries; and one might go to Jerry Uelsmann or Robert ParkeHarrison for work that corresponds to gendai haiku, or at least some aspects of it. The connections between haiku and photography go far beyond “snapshot”.

Click on my name for Minor White photo.

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