Foreword by Chuck Kimmerle
Preface
Introduction to the Second Edition
PART IART
1The Mission of Art
2My Audience
3Difficult Questions
4Art and Philosophy
5The Things Themselves
6Driving Miss Camera
7The Phase of No Emotion
8Lie Like You Mean It
9The Meaning of Words
10No Lesser an Art
11Art and Rebellion
12What Is Real
13The Educated Audience
14The Medium Is Not the Message
15Contemporary Oligarchy
16Art for People’s Sake
17The Important Thing
18What Makes an Artist
19On Subjectivity
20The Mythical Personal Style
21Such Things Could Be
22Where Credit Is Due
23Shock and Awe
24Artistic Promiscuity
PART IICRAFT
25Perfectly Dead Things
26Finding the Needle
27Forget Vision
28Projects and Explorations
29Of and About
30On Art and Writing
31Rethinking Visualization
32Composition Means Nothing
33Creative Blocks
34The Missing Dimensions
35The Concept
36Breadth and Depth
37Isolation
38The Velvet Handcuffs of Predictability
39Abstractions
40Invisible Gorillas
41To See as Beautiful
PART IIIEXPERIENCES
42End-of-Season Reflections
43What Is Enough
44Wilderness and Me
45Coming Home
46A Measure of Worth
47Small Joys
48Early Spring Meanderings
49Living the Life
50Listening to the Stories
51Working from Home
52The Image and the Experience
53Solastalgia
54Canyon Time
55A Matter of Perspective
PART IVMEDITATIONS
56Big Thoughts
57Heaven and Hell
58The Meaning of Meaning
59On Significance
60The Art and the Life
61Know This
62Photography and the Creative Life
63Stories of My Generation
64The Wonderful Lightness of Being
65The Problem with Moments
66Attention Overload
67Aboutness
68Experience, Uninterrupted
69The Abyss Is Always There
70Politicizing Art
71Meditations on Art, Work, and Solace
72Reentry
73Photographing Rocks
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