http://www.aperture.org/exposures/?p=188 An Aperture Blog Mon, 20 Dec 2010 20:10:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 http://www.aperture.org/exposures/?p=188&cpage=1#comment-313 Stuart Oring Wed, 06 Aug 2008 18:26:33 +0000 http://www.aperture.org/exposures/?p=188#comment-313 Minor's influence on his students and photography in general is incalculable. All of us will forever owe a debt of gratitude to him for pushing the frontiers of photography aesthetics far beyond where it was at the time before his emergence as a great photographer and teacher. But, beyond that, he showed us new ways to look at the creative photography process and opened our eyes to new vistas that forever changed our lives. For example, he introduced his students to Zen Meditation and Chinese Philosophy. He introduced me to the I Ching and encouraged my experiments with it in order to help read photographs. This procedure enables the process of reading photographs to extend to the understanding of the unconscious feelings of the photographer at the time the photograph was created. Minor would remain your friend for life if you would only return the friendship. Minor’s influence on his students and photography in general is incalculable.
All of us will forever owe a debt of gratitude to him for pushing the frontiers
of photography aesthetics far beyond where it was at the time before his
emergence as a great photographer and teacher. But, beyond that, he
showed us new ways to look at the creative photography process and opened our eyes to new vistas that forever changed our lives. For example, he introduced his students to Zen Meditation and Chinese Philosophy. He introduced me to the I Ching and encouraged my experiments with it in order to help read
photographs. This procedure enables the process of reading photographs to extend to the understanding of the unconscious feelings of the photographer at the time the photograph was created. Minor would remain your friend for life if you would only return the friendship.

]]> http://www.aperture.org/exposures/?p=188&cpage=1#comment-177 Michelle Dunn Wed, 09 Jul 2008 20:48:10 +0000 http://www.aperture.org/exposures/?p=188#comment-177 This is one of my favorite images of Minor--though I never met him, I have heard many loving stories from those who studied with Minor, including former Aperture executive director Michael E. Hoffman, and production director Stevan Baron--and in this image it is as if Minor is offering his blessing on photography. Happy birthday Minor, thank you for bringing Aperture into being and for the impact you have had on the field of photography! This is one of my favorite images of Minor–though I never met him, I have heard many loving stories from those who studied with Minor, including former Aperture executive director Michael E. Hoffman, and production director Stevan Baron–and in this image it is as if Minor is offering his blessing on photography. Happy birthday Minor, thank you for bringing Aperture into being and for the impact you have had on the field of photography!

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