Thusness and image
Subtitle: photography, semiosis and spiritual perception
By: Dennis Cordell
Publisher: BDe gNas Productions; Printed and distributed by Harvard Book Store
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York, NY; Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780692241738
Subjects: Buddhism and philosophy; Buddhists; Pictorial works; Photography; Philosophy
Notes: " ... a photographer's journal that examines how a photographic image may be used to depict spiritual contemplation. The text discusses concepts by early Buddhist logicians such as Dignaga, Dharmakirti, Chandrakirti and others. Special consideration is given to Dignaga's theory of negation (apoha) juxtaposed against contemporary semioticians, deconstructionists and essayists, such as Derrida, Foucault, Barthes, Flusser, Sontag, etc. The more than 150 photographs are of spiritual contemplatives in Asia taken over a thirty year period."--Http://www.harvard.com/book/thusness_and_image.