Zen Camera: Creative Awakening with a Daily Practice in Photography

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Hardcover
2018
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Zen Camera is a photography and mindfulness program that guides you to the creativity at your fingertips--literally--requiring nothing more than your smartphone or any other type of camera. Over the course of six lessons gleaned from the author's 40 years of teaching photography, you'll learn how to use the camera in your pocket to explore self-expression as a photographer and produce photographs that are both wildly beautiful and uniquely your own. Gorgeously illustrated with 60-75 full-color photographs, David Ulrich's lessons combine mindfulness principles with concrete exercises and the basic mechanics of taking a good photograph. He guides you through a program of taking photos every day (called your Daily Record), similar to a journaling practice. He also offers profound insight into the nature of seeing, art, and attention, pushing you to live more authentically.

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Zen Camera is a photography and mindfulness program that guides you to the creativity at your fingertips--literally--requiring nothing more than your smartphone or any other type of camera. Over the course of six lessons gleaned from the author's 40 years of teaching photography, you'll learn how to use the camera in your pocket to explore self-expression as a photographer and produce photographs that are both wildly beautiful and uniquely your own. Gorgeously illustrated with 60-75 full-color photographs, David Ulrich's lessons combine mindfulness principles with concrete exercises and the basic mechanics of taking a good photograph. He guides you through a program of taking photos every day (called your Daily Record), similar to a journaling practice. He also offers profound insight into the nature of seeing, art, and attention, pushing you to live more authentically.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 224
Publisher: Watson-Guptill
Published: 07 Mar 2018
ISBN 10: 0399580336
ISBN 13: 9780399580338
Book Overview: A beautifully illustrated guide to developing a daily photography practice that draws on mindfulness and Zen Buddhism, featuring accessible lessons on the mechanics of photography, in order to tap into one's unique, innate creativity.

Media Reviews

A never-before-seen photography practice that helps artists to channel their inner creativity using nothing more than their vision and a camera - even a phone camera will do. - Signature Reads

Zen Camera is to photographers what The Artist's Way is to writers. This master class in creativity deserves a place in your home - I highly recommend this book! - Create with Joy

Ulrich...offers a deeper look at creating and capturing images -- by sharing practices that can help us bring a level of presence to both the process and resulting image. Books for Better Living

Whether you're a newbie, amateur photographer, or seasoned professional, this book will help you cultivate creativity with a camera and in all areas of your life. - Lion's Roar

Zen Camera is a well written and informative guide to taking better pictures... Recommended for those wanting to improve their photographic eye. - Evilcyclist blog

We have to be able to sit and think about one thing for a long period of time. This stillness, this ability to think and contemplate, is key to Ulrich's philosophy regarding photography. -- Resource Magazine

Zen Camera gets real about what it takes to master the art of photography. In six compelling lessons, Ulrich guides us through a series of tasks to purify our seeing and allow our original self to emerge. The prize: To create authentic and meaningful work with resonating presence. --Philippe L. Gross, Ph.D., The Tao of Photography: Seeing Beyond Seeing

Whether you ultimately take up photography or not, Zen Camera will allow you to see the world with a soulful new perspective. It will open your eyes to the wonder and magic that exists in this world! And who knows, it might just inspire you to embark on a wonderfully fulfilling photography practice. -Agapi Stassinopoulos, author of Wake Up to the Joy of You

Zen Camera gently nudges us to realize, in each moment, that our world is nothing like ordinary; it is dramatic and mesmerizing and constantly offers us transcendental imagery if we just remember to truly see and click! -Elaine Clayton, artist and author of Making Marks: Discover the Art of Intuitive Drawing

The most important lesson I learned was in a photography class with David Ulrich, who taught me that I had something to say. It was life changing. I'll never forget David's generosity of spirit and how it transformed the course of my life. --Lydia Panas, photographer and author of The Mark of Abel and Falling from Grace

Author Bio

DAVID ULRICH is a professor and co-director of Pacific New Media Foundation in Honolulu, Hawai'i. He teaches frequent classes and workshops, and is an active photographer and writer whose work has been published in numerous books and journals including Aperture, Manoa, and Sierra Club publications. Ulrich's photographs have been exhibited internationally in more than 75 one-person and group exhibitions. He blogs about creativity and consciousness at www.theslenderthread.org, and is a consulting editor for Parabola magazine. Visit his website at: www.creativeguide.com.