Torsten Andreas Hoffmann

This was a great book!! It was very helpful with techniques and gave awesome examples. I would recommend it to anyone who is interested in photography in general as well as black and white.

I wanted to like this book, but his utter disdain for kichy snapshots was offputting. So, too, was his pseudometaphysics about Zen that tried to be everything while claiming to be only representative. I'm generally skeptical of symbolism, and his descriptions of what his images were symbolic of were unconvincing.

I still think there is value in pairing meditation with photography as a practice. I just wish this book illustrated that better.