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Picturing Ourselves

Author : Linda Haverty Rugg
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226731480
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Picturing Ourselves written by Linda Haverty Rugg and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photography has transformed the way we picture ourselves. Although photographs seem to "prove" our existence at a given point in time, they also demonstrate the impossibility of framing our multiple and fragmented selves. As Linda Haverty Rugg convincingly shows, photography's double take on self-image mirrors the concerns of autobiographers, who see the self as simultaneously divided (in observing/being) and unified by the autobiographical act. Rugg tracks photography's impact on the formation of self-image through the study of four literary autobiographers concerned with the transformative power of photography. Obsessed with self-image, Mark Twain and August Strindberg both attempted (unsuccessfully) to integrate photographs into their autobiographies. While Twain encouraged photographers, he was wary of fakery and kept a fierce watch on the distribution of his photographic image. Strindberg, believing that photographs had occult power, preferred to photograph himself. Because of their experiences under National Socialism, Walter Benjamin and Christa Wolf feared the dangerously objectifying power of photographs and omitted them from their autobiographical writings. Yet Benjamin used them in his photographic conception of history, which had its testing ground in his often-ignored Berliner Kindheit um 1900. And Christa Wolf's narrator in Patterns of Childhood attempts to reclaim her childhood from the Nazis by reconstructing mental images of lost family photographs. Confronted with multiple and conflicting images of themselves, all four of these writers are torn between the knowledge that texts, photographs, and indeed selves are haunted by undecidability and the desire for the returned glance of a single self.

Picture Perfect Practice

Author : Roberto Valenzuela
Publisher : New Riders
ISBN 13 : 013285290X
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (328 download)

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Download or read book Picture Perfect Practice written by Roberto Valenzuela and published by New Riders. This book was released on 2012-02-14 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foreword by Skip Cohen Translating the chaos of the real world into a breathtakingly simple, beautiful photograph can often seem like an impossible task. With busy, cluttered backgrounds and subjects who don’t know how to pose, how can you take control and get a great shot no matter the situation? In Picture Perfect Practice, photographer Roberto Valenzuela breaks down the craft of photography into three key elements–locations, poses, and execution–that you can use to unlock the photographic opportunities lying beneath every challenging situation. Valenzuela stresses the need for photographers to actively practice their craft every day–just like you would practice a musical instrument–in order to master the art of making great images. With chapters that offer practice exercises to strengthen your photographic abilities, you’ll learn how to approach a scene, break it down, and see your way to a great photograph. The Location section features chapters that cover symmetry, balance, framing, color elements, textures, and much more. The Posing section includes the Five Key Posing Techniques that Valenzuela uses every time he’s shooting people, as well as a complete list of poses and how to achieve, customize, and perfect them. The Execution portion, with sections like “Lighting through Direction” and “Simplicity through Subtraction,” reveals Valenzuela’s overall approach to getting the shot. The book also includes an inspiring and helpful chapter on deliberate practice techniques, where Valenzuela describes his system for practicing and analyzing his work, which leads to constant improvement as a photographer. If you’ve been frustrated and overwhelmed by the challenges of real-world locations, posing your subjects, or executing a great image–or if you simply want to become a better shooter but don’t know where to start– Picture Perfect Practice gives you the tools and information you need to finally become the kind of photographer you’ve always wanted to be: the kind who can confidently walk into any location, under any lighting condition, with any subject, and know that you can create astonishing photographs that have a timeless impact.

Picturing Dogs, Seeing Ourselves

Author : Ann-Janine Morey
Publisher : Animalibus
ISBN 13 : 9780271063317
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (633 download)

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Download or read book Picturing Dogs, Seeing Ourselves written by Ann-Janine Morey and published by Animalibus. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores antique photographs of people and their dogs to expand the understanding of visual studies, animal studies, and American culture. Uses the canine body as a lens to investigate the cultural significance of family and childhood portraits, pictures of hunters, and racially charged images.

Imagining Ourselves

Author : Daniel Francis
Publisher : arsenal pulp press
ISBN 13 : 9781551520001
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Imagining Ourselves written by Daniel Francis and published by arsenal pulp press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagining Ourselves gathers together selections from Canadian non-fiction books that in some way have had a major impact on how we view ourselves as Canadians, revealing how the national identity has been shaped and informed by the written word. Included are selections from such well-known Canadian books as Wild Animals I Have Known (Ernest Thomas Seton), Pilgrims of the Wild (Grey Owl), Klee Wyck (Emily Carr), The Game (Ken Dryden), Renegade in Power (Peter C. Newman), Survival (Margaret Atwood), and The Last Spike (Pierre Berton).

How to Make Our Mental Pictures Come True

Author : George Schubel
Publisher : Health Research Books
ISBN 13 : 9780787311834
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (118 download)

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Download or read book How to Make Our Mental Pictures Come True written by George Schubel and published by Health Research Books. This book was released on 1996-09 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1922 a series of easy lessons in the art of visualization. One of the inspirational classics. Ideal for gifts.

Pictures, Quotations, and Distinctions

Author : Robert Sokolowski
Publisher : CUA Press
ISBN 13 : 0813235189
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (132 download)

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Download or read book Pictures, Quotations, and Distinctions written by Robert Sokolowski and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2022-01-14 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Pictures, Quotations, and Distinctions presents an anthology of the essays of Robert Sokolowski, a thinker who excels in questions of conceptual analysis. The essays constitute Sokolowski's sustained project of critical phenomenological analysis of many different forms of presentation as well as many different forms of human experience. Aimed at the specialist in phenomenology and the generalist in the philosophical tradition, Sokolowski's work describes various ways in which things appear: as pictured, quoted, measured, distinguished, explained, meant, and referred to. Through the analysis of appearances, he probes the question of being and clarifies the human condition. The fourteen essays are grouped into pairs or triplets. "Picturing" and "Quotation" describe representation in image and speech. "Making Distinctions" clarifies how we can isolate something as an issue for thought, and "Explaining" discusses what we do after we have isolated it. "Timing" and "Measurement" describe two ways in which wholes are articulated into parts, and "Exact Science and the World in Which We Live" further develops the theme of measurement. "Exorcising Concepts" and "Referring" are a phenomenological attempt to treat sense and reference. "Grammar and Thinking" and "Tarskian Harmonies in Words and Pictures" discuss the formal composition of sentences and images and their relationship to the way things are disclosed. The final three essays are studies in the phenomenology of ethical performance. By providing concrete analysis of human themes familiar to everything, such as picturing and quotation, these examples of applied phenomenology take appearances seriously, while making philosophical distinctions among them."--

New Essays on Semantic Externalism and Self-knowledge

Author : Susana Nuccetelli
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262140836
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book New Essays on Semantic Externalism and Self-knowledge written by Susana Nuccetelli and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on the consequences of semantic externalism for knowledge of mind and the empirical world and for our understanding of transmission of epistemic warrant by inference.

Leap to Wholeness

Author : Sky Nelson-Isaacs
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
ISBN 13 : 1623175682
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (231 download)

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Download or read book Leap to Wholeness written by Sky Nelson-Isaacs and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do you get something out of nothing? It seems like an obvious question, one that drives everything from spiritual creation stories to our understanding of the Big Bang. Yet it leaves us with a sense that underneath everything lies emptiness and lack. We can phrase this question in a new way: how do we get something out of everything? In Leap to Wholeness, physics educator Sky Nelson-Isaacs explores the science of wholeness. To understand wholeness, imagine a beautiful photograph that you want to modify. The image exists in space. Yet graphic designers are familiar with another space, called the frequency domain, or “pattern-space.” Here, changes to the patterns affect the image as a whole. We can make the entire image blurrier or sharper, for instance, with a simple filter in pattern-space. A change to one local region affects the image everywhere. This is an example of wholeness that exists right before our eyes. We each have filters that influence what we see, hear, think, and feel. They take who we are as a whole, and they limit it to what we feel comfortable with--what we already know, rather than how we can grow. We carry models that interpret the world for us. But we can become more aware of our filters and from this awareness experience more flow, more openness, and less anxiety. When we align with circumstances rather than fighting them, we open the door to synchronicities that give us leverage in creating the change we want to see. Following this thread from modern audio technology, to the human brain, to the very nature of time itself, Leap to Wholeness explores a paradigm of wholeness that is easy to miss. For instance, when you look at the red part of a rainbow, you may not realize that you’re really seeing white light that’s had blue and green filtered out. Or where you see blue, that means red and green are missing. Maybe creating something out of everything is not about what we do...but about what we don’t do. By removing filters--thoughts, feelings, and other reactions--that keep us weaving the same old patterns, we naturally allow ourselves to grow, heal, and adapt.

In Your New Image

Author : Graham Andrews
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0987509284
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book In Your New Image written by Graham Andrews and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The use of visualization, or creative imagery, to enhance skills, improve self confidence, and feel better about yourself.

With All That We Have Why Aren't We Satisfied?

Author : Clifford Williams
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725222159
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (252 download)

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Download or read book With All That We Have Why Aren't We Satisfied? written by Clifford Williams and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2008-06-01 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a time of great material comfort and increasing prosperity more and more people are having that old "is that all there is?" feeling. Many of those enjoying newfound prosperity are now looking for a larger life. Clifford Williams responds to their spiritual restlessness with an engaging book of short, pointed meditations that are sympathetic, timely, and challenging. "This is a book," writes the author, "for those who pause now and then in life's mad rush to think quietly about where they are headed." A "larger life" is the promise of this book to those who wonder why, with all they have, they are still unsatisfied.

The Theosophical Quarterly

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book The Theosophical Quarterly written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Hybridity in Life Writing

Author : Arnaud Schmitt
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031518047
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Hybridity in Life Writing written by Arnaud Schmitt and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

What Is Buddhist Enlightenment?

Author : Dale S. Wright
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190622601
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book What Is Buddhist Enlightenment? written by Dale S. Wright and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What kind of person should I strive to be? What ideals should I pursue in my life? These basic human questions and others like them are components of the overall question that guides this book: What is enlightenment? As Dale Wright argues, any serious practitioner of human life, religious or not, confronts the challenge of living an authentic life, of overcoming common human disabilities like greed, hatred, and delusion that give rise to excessive suffering. Why then, Wright asks, is this essential question often avoided, even discouraged among Buddhists? One reason frequently cited by Buddhists is that pondering a distant goal might be a waste of energy that would be better applied to practice: Quiet the flow of obsessive thinking, put yourself in a mindful state of presence, and let enlightenment take care of itself. In this book, however, Wright contends that pondering this question is meditative practice--that attentive inquiry of this kind is essential as the starting point and guide for any mindful practice of life. Meditative reflection on the meaning of enlightenment focuses us on our aim and direction in life. It guides us in shaping our practices, our ideals, and the kinds of lives we will live. Asking what enlightenment is as a basic form of meditation helps to activate our lives and get transformative practice underway. From Wright's perspective, there is no more important question to ask than this one. What is Buddhist Enlightenment? offers a wide-ranging exploration of issues that have a bearing on the contemporary meaning of enlightenment, including a concluding section with 10 theses that answer the title's question. Written by a leading scholar of Buddhism, the book balances deep learning and an accessible style, offering valuable insights for students, scholars, and practitioners alike. While he takes an examination of what enlightenment has been in past Buddhist traditions as his point of departure, Wright's historical considerations yield to the question that our lives press upon us--what kinds of lives should we aspire to live here, now, and into the future?

Refocusing Chaplin

Author : Lawrence Howe
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 081089226X
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Refocusing Chaplin written by Lawrence Howe and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2013-10-03 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Widely recognized in his character of the Tramp, Charlie Chaplin transcended the role of actor to become screenwriter, director, composer, producer, and finally studio head. The subject of numerous biographical studies, Chaplin has been examined as both myth and man, but these treatments fail to adequately address the often-overlooked complexity of his filmmaking. Refocusing Chaplin: A Screen Icon through Critical Lenses features essays that examine the actor and director through various theoretical perspectives—including Marxism, feminism, gender studies, deconstruction, psychoanalytic criticism, new historicism, performance studies, and cultural criticism. Complementing this range of intellectual inquiry is the wide reach of films discussed, from The Circus (1928), The Gold Rush (1925), and City Lights (1931) to Modern Times (1936), The Great Dictator (1940), Monsieur Verdoux (1947), and Limelight (1952). Shorter films, such as “The Pawnshop” (1916), “The Rink” (1916), and “A Dog’s Life” (1918) are also examined. These essays analyze the tensions between the carefully constructed worlds of Chaplin’s films and their cultural contexts. The varied approaches and range of materials in this volume not only comprehensively assess the screen icon but also foster a conversation that exemplifies the best of intellectual exchange. Refocusing Chaplin provides a unique view into the work of one of cinema’s most important and influential artists.

Mastering Self-Confidence: Embracing Your Inner Strength

Author : Victoria Morgan
Publisher : Richards Education
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mastering Self-Confidence: Embracing Your Inner Strength written by Victoria Morgan and published by Richards Education. This book was released on with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mastering Self-Confidence: Embracing Your Inner Strength is your comprehensive guide to building and sustaining self-confidence. This book delves into understanding the fundamentals of self-confidence, developing a positive self-image, overcoming fears, and mastering effective communication. It provides practical strategies for setting and achieving goals, cultivating a growth mindset, practicing self-care, and building healthy relationships. With a focus on visualization, affirmations, and sustaining long-term confidence, this book offers actionable insights and real-life case studies to help you embrace your inner strength and thrive in all areas of your life. Whether you're looking to boost your confidence at work, in relationships, or in personal pursuits, this guide provides the tools you need for lasting self-assurance and success.

Left to Our Own Devices

Author : Margaret E. Morris
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 026255206X
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book Left to Our Own Devices written by Margaret E. Morris and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2024-05-21 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unexpected ways that individuals adapt technology to reclaim what matters to them, from working through conflict with smart lights to celebrating gender transition with selfies. We have been warned about the psychological perils of technology: distraction, difficulty empathizing, and loss of the ability (or desire) to carry on a conversation. But our devices and data are woven into our lives. We can't simply reject them. Instead, Margaret Morris argues, we need to adapt technology creatively to our needs and values. In Left to Our Own Devices, Morris offers examples of individuals applying technologies in unexpected ways—uses that go beyond those intended by developers and designers. Morris examines these kinds of personalized life hacks, chronicling the ways that people have adapted technology to strengthen social connection, enhance well-being, and affirm identity. Morris, a clinical psychologist and app creator, shows how people really use technology, drawing on interviews she has conducted as well as computer science and psychology research. She describes how a couple used smart lights to work through conflict; how a woman persuaded herself to eat healthier foods when her photographs of salads garnered “likes” on social media; how a trans woman celebrated her transition with selfies; and how, through augmented reality, a woman changed the way she saw her cancer and herself. These and the many other “off-label” adaptations described by Morris cast technology not just as a temptation that we struggle to resist but as a potential ally as we try to take care of ourselves and others. The stories Morris tells invite us to be more intentional and creative when left to our own devices.

Our Eternal Existence

Author : David Gaggin
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1803412941
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Our Eternal Existence written by David Gaggin and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2023-11-24 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our Eternal Existence takes the many disparate scientific, religious, and metaphysical principles into account and answers the questions: Who are we? Where are we? and Why are we here? In so doing, it provides a much-needed ethical philosophy to guide mankind - and a personal methodology to improve our lives.