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The Mindful Photographer: Awake in the World with a Camera Hardcover – April 26, 2022

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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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                        55 beautifully illustrated short essays will set you on the path to becoming a mindful photographer
                        Photos by Robert Frank, Todd Hido, Sally Mann, Lydia Panas, Stephen Shore, Alec Soth & many more

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                        DAVID ULRICH is an active photographer and writer whose work has been published in numerous books and journals including Aperture, Parabola, Mānoa, and Sierra Club publications. Ulrich’s photographs have been exhibited internationally in over seventy-five one-person and group exhibitions in museums, galleries, and universities and can be found in many public and private collections. He is currently co-director of Pacific New Media Foundation in Honolulu, Hawai‘i and a faculty member at Chaminade University. He previously taught for University of Hawai‘i Mānoa and served as Professor and Chair of the Art Department at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle as well as Associate Professor and Chair of the Photography Department of the Art Institute of Boston (now Lesley University College of Art and Design). An engaging speaker and workshop leader, David Ulrich has inspired many people at conferences, colleges and universities, workshop facilities, and art centers. He earned a BFA degree from the Museum School of Fine Arts in Boston and an MFA degree from the Rhode Island School of Design. He is a consulting editor for Parabola magazine and a frequent contributor.

                        David Ulrich is the best-selling author of Zen Camera: Creative Awakening with a Daily Practice in Photography (Watson Guptill/Penguin Random House, 2018), the companion volume for The Mindful Photographer. He is also the author of The Widening Stream: the Seven Stages of Creativity and coauthor of Through Our Eyes: A Photographic View of Hong Kong by Its Youth. His recent book of photographs, Oceano: An Elegy for the Earth, is scheduled for publication in 2022 by George F. Thompson Publishing in association with the Center for the Study of Place. Visit his website at: www.creativeguide.com.

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                        • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Rocky Nook (April 26, 2022)
                        • Language ‏ : ‎ English
                        • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 208 pages
                        • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1681988410
                        • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1681988412
                        • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.6 pounds
                        • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.5 x 0.75 x 9.25 inches
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                        DAVID ULRICH is a professor and co-director of Pacific New Media Foundation in Honolulu. 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, Mānoa, and Sierra Club publications. Ulrich's photographs have been exhibited internationally in more than 75 one-person and group exhibitions. He is the author of The Widening Stream: the Seven Stages of Creativity and Zen Camera: Creative Awakening with a Daily Practice in Photography (February 2018).

                        He blogs about creativity and consciousness at theslenderthread.org, and is a consulting editor for Parabola magazine. www.creativeguide.com

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                        Amazing for taking you deeper into photography
                        David Ulrich’s teachings in this book will take you into profound practices which will not only improve your photography but your connection to your creativity. This is a book which will guide your exploration with your camera and have you seeing in a whole new way. There are plenty of photography resources that teach you about your camera. This book goes so much deeper - a rarity and an absolute gem. Not to be missed.
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                        5.0 out of 5 stars There are a handful of authors that I read religiously; Mr. Ulrich is one of them
                        Reviewed in the United States on January 17, 2022
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                        There are a handful of authors that I read religiously; Mr. Ulrich is one of them. This is the fifth book of his that I've read and thoroughly enjoyed as much as the other four (Zen Camera: Creative Awakening with a Daily Practice in Photography, Through Our Eyes: A Photographic View of Hong Kong by its Youth, The Widening Stream: The Seven Stages of Creativity and Kaho`olawe: Na Leo o Kanaloa). HIs words are as nourishing spiritually as they are practical, as a means for further self-guided study. In particular, this book guides readers, essay by essay, towards focused topics of study all corelating back towards the overall theme of mindfulness. It gives the reader the flexibility to either read essays sequentially or randomly pick and choose specific subtopics of study. And, as it is with the best books/authors, it not only is about the subject matter of photography but also a guide in practicing “The Way”. In other words, the principles in general can be applied towards a more fulfilling life, no matter what your interests are.

                        Therefore, for me, it dovetails perfectly with many of my interests. I would strongly recommend it!
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                        Love to Learn
                        5.0 out of 5 stars Can't wait for the hardback to come out.
                        Reviewed in the United States on November 26, 2021
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                        The Mindful Photographer: Awake in the World with a Camera shares with the reader an easy to understand visual language of photography and mindful awareness. You can use your camera or even a cell phone camera. Best of all, you don’t have to be an expert, I am not! I enjoy capturing flowers and insects doing their thing.

                        This book helped to open my eyes up to creating more interesting photographs, to be patient and live in the moment with my camera. By being quiet and observing nature, I have been able to take much better photographs. It has been an exciting experience. I am now sure to always have my camera with me.

                        I can't wait for the hardback to come out.
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                        Conrad J. Obregon
                        4.0 out of 5 stars But Not for Me
                        Reviewed in the United States on November 23, 2021
                        I am not spiritual. I believe in reason. In many ways that makes it hard for me to review this book.

                        The author says he takes a Zen approach to photography. I have studied Zen for many years and though I think I understand its principles as explained by a number of writers, I still find I cannot make it a way of life. David Ulrich has apparently grasped it.

                        This book deals with mastering the most important tool in photography: the photographer’s mind. It offers an answer to the question how we should prepare our mind for photography. It explores the question in a series of short essays. The book includes many of the subjects that are important to the use of photographers’ minds, and I agree with most of the content. But his approach is almost directly opposite to that of the rational mind. It emphasizes being open to the subject and being in the moment.

                        Don’t get me wrong. This approach can be useful to some photographers in their search for better images (whatever that means). It may even be good for more rationally oriented photographers to challenge the mental grounds on which they approach photography, even if they reject Ulrich’s approach.

                        As I read through this book, I was reminded of another book recently presented by the same publisher: Joe McNally’s “The Real Deal”. It explores much the same ground but in far less mystical terms. It spoke more to me than these homilies.

                        I was particularly put off by the way the author regularly quoted well known artists to support his point. For example he quotes Picasso who said “Art is a lie that tells us the truth.” He suggests that Picasso meant that it was okay for a photograph to lie in pursuit of some higher truth. Students of the great artist will know that Picasso was talking about the fact that art is not a reflection of reality, but a modification by using other methods to arrive at a conclusion. Similarly most folks who are familiar with Avedon’s “In the West” will know that the portraits shown there were not meant to be ironic. People who interpret Robert Frank’s elevator operator photograph as reflecting the grinding nature of work have never examined the complete contact sheet of the roll of film where the subject is most often shown smiling.

                        This book may be useful to photographers who have not explored the relationship of their inner lives to photography. Just be aware that that adopting the tenets of an eastern religion may not help you make better photographs.

                        Note: The publisher provided me with a review copy of this book at no charge.
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                        W Cavey
                        5.0 out of 5 stars The author stimulates the reader to be more thoughtful in his/her work.
                        Reviewed in the United States on August 29, 2022
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                        I like the author’s approach, using his experience as a photographer and a teacher to emphasize the need to be more thoughtful about our photography.
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