Meatyard / Merton / Merton / Meatyard : Photographing Thomas Merton

Here is a document of something we have all missed about the final two years of Merton's life. This series of photographs, by a 20th-century master, of a 20th-century seeker, are especially remarkable, because they combine the formalism and relevance of great art with the intimacy, the playfulness, the casual snapshotty sense of lost time, that arises between dear friends.