{"id":1100,"date":"2012-02-22T11:58:04","date_gmt":"2012-02-22T11:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/americanbuddhist\/?p=1100"},"modified":"2012-02-22T11:58:04","modified_gmt":"2012-02-22T11:58:04","slug":"photography-perfected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/americanbuddhist\/2012\/02\/photography-perfected.html","title":{"rendered":"Photography, perfected"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\"\"<\/a>Along with all of this Buddhism<\/a> and philosophy, I also have an enormous love of photography, nature, and running. I have a very busy couple of weeks ahead, so I am not sure if I will have time to write much in the Buddhism\/philosophy categories too soon.<\/p>\n

However, I did stumble across Gregory Crewdson\u2019s work today and felt it very much worth sharing. His photos, for me, approach perfection. They are more than beautiful, more than scenic or technically masterful. They convey a multiplicity of emotions and dimensions which unveil themselves to the viewer over time. Just as in meditation when, at first, thoughts and feelings can rush over you quickly, but soon settle into a deeper, richer texture giving rise to calm, joy, and even rapture, Crewdson\u2019s images will reward the meditative viewer with glimpses into the human condition.<\/p>\n

Crewsdon says his pictures must first be beautiful, but that beauty is not enough. He strives to convey an underlying edge of anxiety, of isolation, of fear (NPR<\/a>).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n