The Mindful Photographer
eBook - ePub

The Mindful Photographer

Awake in the World with a Camera

David Ulrich

  1. 208 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Mindful Photographer

Awake in the World with a Camera

David Ulrich

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About This Book

Discover your voice, cultivate mindful awareness, and inspire creative growth with photography

In The Mindful Photographer, teacher, author, and photographer David Ulrich follows up on the success of his previous book, Zen Camera, by offering photographers, smartphone camera users, and other cultural creatives 55 short (1-5 pages) essays on topics related to photography, mindfulness, personal growth, creativity, and cultivating personal and social awareness. Whether you're seeking to become a better photographer, find your voice, enhance your ability to "see" the world around you, realize your full potential, or refine your personal expression, The Mindful Photographer can help you. You will learn to:

•Awaken your creative spirit
•Find joy and fulfillment with a camera
•Improve your photography
•Express your deepest vision of the world
•Learn to be more present in the moment
•Deepen your capacity for observation
•Gain insight into your self and others
•Cultivate mindful seeing
•Use your camera as a tool for change
•Enhance your visual literacy
•And much more

You can read this beautiful, richly illustrated book in order, following its inherent structure, or you can dive into the book anywhere that appeals to you, following your own stream of interest. No matter how you read and work through the book—many of the essays contain exercises, working practices, and quotes from well-known photographers—you will learn to deepen your engagement with the world and discover a rich source of creativity within you through the act of taking pictures.


TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
Seek Resonance
Camera Practice
Avoid the Merely Pictorial
Pictures are Not About Pictures
Visual Learning
First Sight; Beginner's Eye
The Camera in Your Hand
Seeing from the Body
It's All About Hormones
Attention and Distraction
Keep the French Fries
Becoming Good
Audience
Fitting into the Flow of Time
Catch the Wave, Not the Ripple
Of Time and Light
In Space
Finding Your Mojo
River of Consciousness
Why Selfies?
When to Put the Camera Down
Mindful Sight
Creative Time
Minding the Darkness
Potency of Metaphor
Mapping the Internal Terrain
What Helps?
Analyzing Your Images
Sift, Edit, and Refine
Sequencing
Experiment
Become the Camera
Music of the Spheres
InSeeing
Fifty/Fifty
Creative Mind and Not Knowing
Trust Your Process
Digital Life
Steal Like an Artist
Art is a Lie that Tells the Truth
Use Irony Sparingly
Embrace Paradox
When to be Tender, When to Snarl, When to Shout, and When to Whisper
Sharpness is a Bourgeois Concept
Learn to Love the Questions
The Wisdom of Chance
Awake in the World
The Cruel Radiance of What Is
Hope and Despair
Companions on the Way
Coherence and Presence
Wholeness and Order
Creative Intensity
Sea of Images
The Power of Art

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Information

Publisher
Rocky Nook
Year
2021
ISBN
9781681988436
Topic
Medien & darstellende Kunst
Subtopic
Digitale Medien

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Introduction
  6. Seek Resonance
  7. Camera Practice
  8. Avoid the Merely Pictorial
  9. Pictures Are Not About Pictures
  10. Visual Learning
  11. First Sight, Beginner’s Eye
  12. The Camera in Your Hand
  13. Seeing from the Body
  14. It’s All About Hormones
  15. Attention and Distraction
  16. Keep the French Fries
  17. Becoming Good; Becoming Whole
  18. Audience
  19. Fitting into the Flow of Time
  20. Catch the Wave, Not the Ripple
  21. Of Time and Light
  22. In Space
  23. Finding Your Mojo
  24. River of Consciousness, Stream of Images
  25. Why Selfies?
  26. When to Put the Camera Down
  27. Mindful Sight
  28. Creative Time
  29. Minding the Darkness
  30. The Potency of Metaphor
  31. Mapping the Internal Terrain
  32. What Helps?
  33. Analyzing Your Images
  34. Sift, Edit, and Refine
  35. Sequencing
  36. Experiment
  37. Become the Camera
  38. Music of the Spheres
  39. The Art of Inseeing
  40. Fifty/Fifty
  41. Creative Mind and Not Knowing
  42. Trust Your Process
  43. Digital Life
  44. Steal Like an Artist
  45. Art Is a Lie That Tells the Truth
  46. Use Irony Sparingly
  47. Embrace Paradox
  48. Know When to Be Tender, When to Snarl, When to Shout, and When to Whisper
  49. “Sharpness is a Bourgeois Concept”
  50. Learn to Love the Questions
  51. The Wisdom of Chance
  52. Awake in the World
  53. The Cruel Radiance of What Is
  54. Hope and Despair
  55. Companions on the Way
  56. Coherence and Presence
  57. Wholeness and Order
  58. Creative Intensity
  59. Sea of Images
  60. The Power of Art
  61. Acknowledgments
  62. About the author
  63. Photo Credits