{"title":"Books by Guy Tal","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9781681986838","title":"More Than a Rock","description":"A deeper look at the creativity, art, expression, craft, and philosophy of landscape photography.   More Than a Rock, 2nd Edition is a passionate and personal book about creativity and expression. In this series of over 70 brief essays, photographer and teacher Guy Tal shares his thoughts and experiences as an artist who seeks to express more in his images than the mere appearance of the subject portrayed. Following up on the success of the first edition, this revised edition contains updated imagery, a new essay in each of the book's four sections—Art, Craft, Experiences, and Meditations—and is presented in a beautiful hardcover format.   Tal makes an argument to consider creative landscape photography—expressing something of the photographer's conception through the use of natural aesthetics—as a form of visual art that is distinct from the mere representation of beautiful natural scenes. Tal covers topics such as the art of photography, approaches to landscape photography, and the experiences of a working photographic artist. His essays also include reflections on nature and man's place in it, living a meaningful life, and living as an artist in today's world.   The book is decidedly non-technical and focuses on philosophy, nature, and visual expression. It was written for those photographers with a passion and interest in creative photography. Anyone who is pursuing their work as art, is in need of inspiration, or is interested in the writings of a full-time working photographic artist will benefit from reading this book. The book is visually punctuated with Tal's inspiring and breathtaking photography.   'Some images look like things, while others feel like things; some images are of things, while others are about things. A creative image is not a record of a scene nor a substitute for a real experience. Rather, it is an experience in itself—an aesthetic experience—something new that the artist has given the world, rather than a contrived view of something that already existed independent of them.' — Guy Tal","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56303439085941,"sku":"9781681986838","price":33.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781681986838_1aaeec5d-b10a-48f7-acf8-da74a42a6a48.jpg?v=1786024759"},{"product_id":"9798888142042","title":"Be Extraordinary","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn inspiring, educational, and practical book about philosophy and art, and finding a personally meaningful life.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTeacher, philosopher, and author Guy Tal has written several best-selling books on photography, creativity, and expression. While it would be understandable to label Guy a “photographer,” it is more accurate to call him a philosopher and artist who has forged a creative life on his own terms: a life shaped by his love of nature, his interest in science and philosophy, his individualistic temperament, and his desire to create art that is expressive and significant in the ways most meaningful to him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eBe Extraordinary: Philosophical Advice for Photographic and Other Artists\u003c\/i\u003e, Guy shares his knowledge of philosophy and art, then offers advice on how to implement it into your own work. In the first part, “Foundations,” Guy lays out a conceptual framework for the book with short essays about philosophy and art. In the second part, “Practical Advice,” he offers a series of brief essays aiming to enable and empower you to apply the foundational philosophies to your own life and work. Together, the two parts demonstrate how Guy has carefully fashioned his own perspective on philosophy, art, and life, and offer you a set of tools for finding your own path.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is not a how-to book of techniques and tips. The goal of the book is to make you think, to pose hard questions, to challenge you to question common beliefs and attitudes, to nudge you out of your comfort zone, and to help you find the courage to become who you—and only you—are. And in so doing, to create a life and art that is meaningful in the deepest ways that life and art can be meaningful, which is to say: meaningful to you.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56311340663157,"sku":"9798888142042","price":33.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9798888142042_72e7cbe4-4ac3-4e65-9eab-bd2a24db09c4.jpg?v=1786033452"},{"product_id":"the-interior-landscape","title":"The Interior Landscape","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA deeply thoughtful and inspiring collectionof essays about visual expression, art, creativity, and a life in photography\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePhotographer, teacher, and author Guy Tal hasbeen photographing the landscape for more than 30 years, and in that time hehas also been consistently contributing to the literature of photography,writing not about the technical aspects of the photograph—the gear, theexposure details, the “secrets to getting a great shot”—but about the deepertopics of visual expression, creativity, art, and life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBuilding on the legacy of his previousbest-selling books \u003ci\u003eMore Than a Rock\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAnother DayNot Wasted\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as his work as a regular contributor to \u003ci\u003eLensWork\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eOnLandscap\u003c\/i\u003ee magazines, \u003ci\u003eThe Interior Landscape\u003c\/i\u003e is acollection of more than 60 brief essays, packaged in a beautiful hardcoverformat and illustrated throughout with Guy's stunning photography.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOrganized into four parts, Guy discusses:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCreativity and expression as the mostsignificant aspects of making art\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe controversial and tenuous relationshipbetween photography (by design a medium for objective representation) and art(by definition the subjective expressions of the imagination of artists)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow he has formed a relationship with, andfound meaning in, the natural landscape, and how he expresses these meanings inhis photographs\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLessons learned from more than three decadesof practicing expressive landscape photography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Interior Landscape \u003c\/i\u003eis for anyone interested in, as the titlesuggests, turning inward to explore creativity, art, expression, and thelandscape. It is sure to illuminate, educate, and inspire you on yourphotographic journey.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57647762473333,"sku":"9781681988917","price":33.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781681988917.jpg?v=1791828515"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-guy-tal.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}