Photograph God: Creating a Spiritual Blog of Your Life
is one of art’s most complete and compelling integrations of
the sacred and profane. Mel Alexenberg
shows the way to the divine via digital imagery and heightened perception of
its presence in the moving face of every person, place, and thing. It reads like a swift and soulful breeze.” -
Dr. Shaun McNiff, author of Trust the Process: An Artist’s Guide to Letting
Go and Art Heals: How Creativity cures the Soul, University
Professor, Lesley University, Cambridge
"Alexenberg offers a scintillating experiment in creativity. His work is an invitation to deepen your spiritual sensibilities as you extend your imagination.” - Jan Phillips, author of God Is at Eye Level: Photography as a Healing Art
"Alexenberg proposes that text and image - something as
simple as photos taken with a smartphone, and multiplied in their resonance by
the Internet - can be a consciousness raising tool" - Peter Samis,
Associate Curator, Interpretation, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
“Thinks brilliantly outside the box. It crisscrosses
disciplines, from science and technology to philosophy and mysticism to art as
both historical and creative phenomena. This is one of those books that other
thinkers will wish they had somehow thought about how to write, and to which
readers of diverse sorts will simply respond by saying: wow!” - Dr. Ori Z.
Soltes, author of Tradition and Transformation, Professorial Lecturer in
Theology and Fine Arts, Georgetown University
“There are many parallels in Christian thought and deed that should allow this excellent book to resonate with many people of faith. He has succeeded in creating a program for photographers, on a daily basis, to explicitly weave their faith into their art and ultimately, back into their worldview with a fresh perspective.” - Bob Weil is co-author of The Art of iPhone Photography: Creating Great Photos and Art on Your iPhone
"Photograph God gives us an amazing perspective on our own existence, especially in the age of interconnected iPhone culture." - Prof. Michael Bielicky, Head of Department of Digital Media/Postdigital Narratives, University of Art and Design/ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany
"In an original way, Prof. Alexenberg invites us to
connect the networked world of Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Instagram, WhatsApp
and Blogspot, with the concept of the unseen God." - Dr. Yael Eylat
Van-Essen, author of Digital Culture: Virtuality, Society and Information,
teaches at Tel Aviv University and Holon Institute of Technology, Israel
"I can feel your joy, warmth and good humor in your
images."- Julie DuBose, author of Effortless Beauty: Photography as an
Expression of Eye, Mind and Heart
"Alexenberg locates art in the realm of personal
experience and creative expression at a time when art education is falling
under the jurisdiction of more singular bureaucratic prescriptions.... A
valuable addition to the literature of art education.” – Dr. Jerome J. Hausman,
author of Arts and the Schools, former Professor, School of the Art
Institute of Chicago, and World Council member, International Society for
Education through Art
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