
Enso: What Is Beheld
David Scheinbaum(Author)
Museum of New Mexico Press
Published on 15. October 2024
Book
Hardback
120 pages
978-0-89013-684-3 (ISBN)
Description
Quarantining during the COVID pandemic offered photographer David Scheinbaum the removal of life's distractions and the time and focus to embark on a long-desired path to work camera-less. Using the tools of a Zen calligrapher and darkroom chemistry, Scheinbaum's creative process involved exposure of photographic paper, using various brush types brushing on chemistry under a dim safelight, sometimes using fixer, other times developer, at times both. His technique varied with each image.This beautiful book presents a portfolio of Scheinbaum's ensō drawings with an insightful essay by Zen monk and poet Ninso John High and an introduction by Zen calligrapher, teacher, author, and Buddhist translator Kazuaki Tanahashi. The book includes examples of Tanahashi's and High's recognizable vibrant colored ensōs.
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Language
English
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 244 mm
Width: 267 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
1032 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-89013-684-3 (9780890136843)
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David Scheinbaum's photography has been exhibited internationally and is in numerous museum collections. He is former Director/Chair of the Photography Department in the Marion Center for Photographic Arts at the Santa Fe University of Art and Design and Professor Emeritus at the College of Santa Fe. He is the author of numerous books including Varanasi: City Immersed in Prayer (George F. Thompson Publishing, 2020); Bisti, (University of New Mexico Press, 1987); Stone: A Substantial Witness (Museum of New Mexico Press, 2006); Hip Hop: Portraits of an Urban Hymn (Damiani Editore, 2012); and with his wife, Janet Russek, Images in the Heavens, Patterns on the Earth: The I Ching (Museum of New Mexico Press, 2005).,