Photography and Tarot Cards: What's the Difference?
(Protecting and Serving) It could be said that photography and tarot cards are an experience of being by means of an image, not just any image, but that image which is the essence of all things. Divination begins when the fortune teller finds himself face to face with the visible world as with something immensely enigmatical. Similarly, in the creation of a photograph as art, just as in the art of tarot reading, the photographer is engaged in an experience of his own inner nature, informed not by his physical, but by his mental existence. (Pirates on the Bay)
(Pacific Ocean) The significance of photography lies in a particular form of art by which the photographer brings the visible world into an image. Tarot cards, on the other hand, bring an image into the visible world, and thereby transforms image into a future reality of being. Photography transforms the visible world into a moment of time captured in a photo image, compelled to this attempt by a spiritual (or metaphysical) nature, such that photography is not secondary or superfluous, but absolutely essential if the collective human mind does not want to cripple itself. (Fisherman and Birds)
The Photographer and the significance of the tarot card: "The Fool". (The Others)
(8 Birds and a Boat) The image of The Fool is the image of spring time, birth and rebirth, new beginnings, new realms of possibility, creation and the reinvention of self by being spontaneously and deliberately thoughtful, which are also qualities of a photographer. A tarot card, like a photograph, is a snap shot of a moment in time that is, nevertheless, fluid, ever-changing, moving, evolving and constantly becoming. Although tarot cards and photography are based on "pictures", even mental image pictures frozen in time, caught, captured and held in place by imagination and intuition, yet, unlike a photograph, a tarot card is "read" or experienced intuitively by someone with a unique relationship with the dynamic imagery of a specific card; this fortuitous relationship is really a future-oriented relationship, while, obviously, photographers don't "read" the future into a photographic image, rather they are actually images of the past, not the future at all. (The Little Sailboat)
(The Kitchen) Consider that we live lives given by the future, not the past or the present. When we pull a tarot card out of a deck, we stand, as it were, in the future and look back upon a moment signified and symbolized by the image of the tarot card, frozen in time, apparently still, like a photo. We experience this imagery and symbolism of the card as if we were looking into the future when, in actuality, we're standing in the future looking back in time and seeing what happened in the past and how it evolved as life itself changed into the realm of a future possibility. (Red Chair)
(Chinatown Shopping) If a photograph brings the visible world into an image, a tarot card brings an image into the visible world. If photography transforms the visible world into a snap shot of time (an image in, and of, the past), then tarot cards transform images in, and of, the future into the reality of becoming the here and now. (In the Name of Vanity & Religion)
(Protecting and Serving) It could be said that photography and tarot cards are an experience of being by means of an image, not just any image, but that image which is the essence of all things. Divination begins when the fortune teller finds himself face to face with the visible world as with something immensely enigmatical. Similarly, in the creation of a photograph as art, just as in the art of tarot reading, the photographer is engaged in an experience of his own inner nature, informed not by his physical, but by his mental existence. (Pirates on the Bay)
(Pacific Ocean) The significance of photography lies in a particular form of art by which the photographer brings the visible world into an image. Tarot cards, on the other hand, bring an image into the visible world, and thereby transforms image into a future reality of being. Photography transforms the visible world into a moment of time captured in a photo image, compelled to this attempt by a spiritual (or metaphysical) nature, such that photography is not secondary or superfluous, but absolutely essential if the collective human mind does not want to cripple itself. (Fisherman and Birds)
The Photographer and the significance of the tarot card: "The Fool". (The Others)
(8 Birds and a Boat) The image of The Fool is the image of spring time, birth and rebirth, new beginnings, new realms of possibility, creation and the reinvention of self by being spontaneously and deliberately thoughtful, which are also qualities of a photographer. A tarot card, like a photograph, is a snap shot of a moment in time that is, nevertheless, fluid, ever-changing, moving, evolving and constantly becoming. Although tarot cards and photography are based on "pictures", even mental image pictures frozen in time, caught, captured and held in place by imagination and intuition, yet, unlike a photograph, a tarot card is "read" or experienced intuitively by someone with a unique relationship with the dynamic imagery of a specific card; this fortuitous relationship is really a future-oriented relationship, while, obviously, photographers don't "read" the future into a photographic image, rather they are actually images of the past, not the future at all. (The Little Sailboat)
(The Kitchen) Consider that we live lives given by the future, not the past or the present. When we pull a tarot card out of a deck, we stand, as it were, in the future and look back upon a moment signified and symbolized by the image of the tarot card, frozen in time, apparently still, like a photo. We experience this imagery and symbolism of the card as if we were looking into the future when, in actuality, we're standing in the future looking back in time and seeing what happened in the past and how it evolved as life itself changed into the realm of a future possibility. (Red Chair)
(Chinatown Shopping) If a photograph brings the visible world into an image, a tarot card brings an image into the visible world. If photography transforms the visible world into a snap shot of time (an image in, and of, the past), then tarot cards transform images in, and of, the future into the reality of becoming the here and now. (In the Name of Vanity & Religion)
