Literature influencing your photography

[Curt]

Can folk be a bit more specific about how these books have influenced their photography though?

Reading leads me out of the work-a-day world and into a frame of mind that leads to creativity.

http://www.anniedillard.com/curriculum-vitae.html

Annie Dillard won the Pulitzer for Pilgrim at Tinker Creek when I was finishing my BS at Western, it was a fantastic time were creativity appeared to have no limits.

[Tony Egan]

Originally Posted by mhv

snip.. What has perhaps structured my thinking would be poets: Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Verlaine....

Sounds like a Bob Dylan lyric in there somewhere! In terms of stirring the creative juices I've probably been more influenced by music than literature. Almost finished reading John Berger's recent "Hold everything dear: Despatches on survival and resistance". Nothing like an unapologetic, 80-year old Marxist to make me contemplate what is really dear to me?