Meatyard/Merton: Photographing Thomas Merton (a collaboration between Merton and photographer Ralph Meatyard)
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Product Description This volume is more than the catalog for an exhibit accompanying the 2013 visit of the Dalai Lama to Louisville, Kentucky, and commemorating his affection for Thomas Merton. It is a document of something we have all missed about the final two years of Merton’s life. The starkness and brevity of the passages selected resound in a direct way upon the soul. Photographing Thomas Merton Photographs by Ralph Eugene Meatyard Calligraphies by Thomas Merton “Would you be willing to try something in a experimental vein? If not just say so and it will be perfectly all right with me and I will understand. What I propose is to see how closely I, or any artists can connect with the utterances of another. If you were to send me words, prose or poetry and number of words doesn’t matter and I don’t necessarily understand the personal or private meaning of them- then try to make a photograph or pigraphs of them? we might also if that works try my abstracted photo first and then your words.” August 12, 1967 Meatyard to Merton “I like very much your suggestion of trying something experimental; poems and pictures. Let’s think about that.” August 15, 1967 Merton to Meatyard
