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  • Published: 17 July 2013
  • ISBN: 9781590307793
  • Imprint: Shambhala
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $75.00
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The Practice of Contemplative Photography

Seeing the World with Fresh Eyes




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 techniques for working with texture, light, and color, this book offers a system of training that draws on both Buddhist mindfulness practice and the insights of master photographers such as Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Weston, and Henri Cartier-Bresson.

  • Published: 17 July 2013
  • ISBN: 9781590307793
  • Imprint: Shambhala
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $75.00
Categories:

About the authors

Michael Wood

Michael Wood is the author of Stendhal, America in the Movies, Garcia Marquez: One Hundred Years of Solitude and The Magician's Doubts: Nabokov and the Risks of Fiction (also available in Pimlico). He writes film and literary criticism for the London Review of Books, the New York Times Book Review and other publications. He studied Modern Languages at St John's College, Cambridge, where he was later a Fellow. He taught for along time at Columbia University in New York and then at the University of Exeter. He is currently Professor of English at Princeton University. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.