Sources

Sources and quotations

The course draws on 6 books. Exact quotations appear in quotation marks, and everything else is marked as a paraphrase or a translation.

Books

• John McQuade & Miriam Hall, Looking and Seeing: Nalanda Miksang Contemplative Photography (Drala, 2015). The weekly sequence follows this book.
• Andy Karr & Michael Wood, The Practice of Contemplative Photography (Shambhala, 2011). The 3 stages and many of the exercises come from here.
• Julie DuBose, Effortless Beauty (2013). Passages marked “translated” come from the Chinese edition, so the English is a translation and may differ from her original wording.
• David Ulrich, Zen Camera (Watson-Guptill, 2018).
• Howard Zehr, The Little Book of Contemplative Photography (Good Books, 2005).
• John Howard Griffin, A Hidden Wholeness: The Visual World of Thomas Merton (1970).

Other voices

Every quotation and paraphrase in the course, with the slide it appears on.

1. Henri Cartier-Bresson, PhotographerQuotation · Week 00, slide 6
2. Julie DuBose, Effortless BeautyTranslated from the Chinese edition · Week 00, slide 13
3. Howard Zehr, The Little Book of Contemplative PhotographyParaphrase · Week 00, slide 21
4. David Ulrich, Zen CameraParaphrase · Week 00, slide 22
5. Thomas Merton, Quoted in A Hidden WholenessQuotation · Week 00, slide 23
6. John McQuade, To a struggling studentQuotation · Week 01, slide 5
7. Julie DuBose, Effortless BeautyParaphrased from the Chinese edition · Week 01, slide 18
8. Andy Karr & Michael Wood, The Practice of Contemplative PhotographyParaphrase · Week 01, slide 19
9. Dorothea Lange, PhotographerQuotation · Week 01, slide 20
10. John Howard Griffin, A Hidden WholenessParaphrase · Week 01, slide 21

Teachers and workshops

This is an independent study guide with no connection to any school. For teachers and workshops, see Nalanda Miksang.