The Zen of Photography: How to Take Pictures With Your Mind's Camera

by Paul Martin Lester

Photography is more than f-stops, shutter speeds, and camera choices. Photography and this book teaches how you learn from what you see and experience.

The Zen of Photography: How to Take Pictures with your Mind's Camera is a collection of 100 sayings that the author has written over a 25-year period. By merging the study of photography and the study of Zen philosophy, one learns to use a camera as a way of connecting more fully with the world. Consequently, a camera is not used as a wall between what is seen and what is experienced, but is a tool that serves to unite the photographer with what is being experienced through the photographic process. This book teaches that photography is much more than f-stops, shutter speed and aperture settings, film choices, and camera purchases. If photography were merely a technical operation, robots could take great pictures. Learning is about readiness. Because you are a loving, thinking person who found this book, you want to be inspired to elevate your picture taking to a level in which you learn from the moments you observe and teach others to be moved by those moments. This book is ready for you.

Author Bio: Paul Martin Lester is a Professor of Communications at California State University, Fullerton. After obtaining an undergraduate degree in journalism from the University of Texas at Austin and employment as a photojournalist for The Times-Picayune in New Orleans, Lester received a Master's Degree from the University of Minnesota and a Ph.D. from Indiana University in mass communications. He is the author and editor of seven books.

Genres: Photography

112 pages, Paperback

First published April 28, 2000

About the author

Paul Martin Lester (born March 21, 1953) is a tenured, full professor of Communications at California State University, Fullerton.

Reviews

[Fakhte nasiri · Rating 3 out of 5]

"اكنون"، تمام آن چيزى است كه وجود دارد.

[Patti · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book was a total disappointment.
I bought it because I thought I'd use it as inspiration and reference, and maybe pass it on.
Instead, what I found was a series of jejeune aphorisms, some on the topic and some not. It was actually embarrassing to read the shallow ideas.

[Maryam]

ذن عکاسی را جواد منتظری ترجمه کرده است. کتاب کوچک زیبایی است

[hastiya · Rating 4 out of 5]

kheili jaleb bood.