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The Practice of Contemplative Photography: Seeing the World with Fresh Eyes
by
Andy Karr (Goodreads Author),
Michael Wood
This book teaches us how to fully connect with the visual richness of our ordinary, daily experience. Photography is not just a mechanical process; it requires learning how to see. As you develop your ability to look and see, you will open, more and more, to the natural inspiration of your surroundings.
Filled with practical exercises, photographic assignments, and techniq...more
Filled with practical exercises, photographic assignments, and techniq...more
Paperback, 226 pages
Published
April 12th 2011
by Shambhala
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4.5 stars/Non-Fiction; Photography
*Highly recommended*
Walk down any photography section in either your local bookstore or library and you are sure to be inundated with books about the technical aspects of photography. You will find books on posing your subjects, composing your shots and how to manipulate them in post production with the latest software. It is no secret that knowing the ins and outs of these things will help you produce great 'technically' correct images. But what about the all-i...more
*Highly recommended*
Walk down any photography section in either your local bookstore or library and you are sure to be inundated with books about the technical aspects of photography. You will find books on posing your subjects, composing your shots and how to manipulate them in post production with the latest software. It is no secret that knowing the ins and outs of these things will help you produce great 'technically' correct images. But what about the all-i...more
There are a great many beautiful photographs in this book. Photos that are austere, elegant, cool, detached and mostly lifeless. The photos celebrate a kind of elegant starkness that seeks to divert attention from the messy realities of life. Even those with the zen-mandated element of nature - the single leaf on the auto body, the washed-out sky with abstract looking tree branches in the corners, the reflecting pond with a single hanging branch reflected perfectly - seem poised, artificial, rep...more
One doesn't have to have a special camera, nor be a professional photographer. One does have to see. The idea proposed here is that we look and not excite ourselves with the notion of capture, but be still enough to recognize what is ready to be captured. Laid out in a series of exercises, this book leads one through ways of seeing. An exercise is suggested, then the authors or their students present their photos as examples of the exercise completed. The author stresses that these photos not be...more
I lost my Muse (in several ways) a while ago, and I would like to get it back. A book really isn't the way, although it does offer some help. This book is essentially a print version of the Miksang contemplative photography classes I took about 10-12 years ago, when I was active in Shambhala Buddhism. It didn't really add anything to my knowledge base, but it is a good introduction for those who haven't had any instruction in contemplative photography. The exercises in the book could be helpful,...more
As someone who shoots both large format, which requires a lot of visualization when capturing an image, and other formats from 35mm to iphone, I really appreciated this book - it is such a different way of relating to one's environment. Often photography gives me an excuse to go out and be in different and beautiful place and after going through this book, I feel like I relate to the environment I am shooting in in a different way. It is a must have book for any photographer.
I've read two chapters, so far, and it seems to be a very good book. They have a very interesting take on how we should go about seeing the world...and they aren't just talking about when you are using a camera. Really good photographs, too.
I picked up this book and it helped me define my style of photography. I have since taken a workshop with the author and it was awesome. I heartily reccomend the book
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This is really the practice of mindful awareness - sort of a Zen thing - applied to photography. It does offer some new and interesting ways of looking but left me a little cold.
I loved the epilogue to this book and the exercises. Great to read abt connections between Buddhist practice and photography.
The writing and pictures were both a bit flat, but they did get their point across,a different way to "see". The exercises are actually fun to try out, like a treasure hunt.
A little bit airy-fairy at times but I think some of the exercises helped to improve and change my visual perception of the world. The many example photos were also helpful and inspiring.
Inspiring. Practical information, fun assignments, and beautiful photography throughout.
Much ado about nothing, could have been 1/4 the length.
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Andy Karr is a writer, photographer, longtime meditator, and Buddhist teacher. He trained intensively with two of the great founding teachers of Western Buddhism: Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, author of Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind, and Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, author of Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism, Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior, and other classics.
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