"Photograph God: Creating a Spiritual Blog of
Your LIfe 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
“Mel 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
“Photograph God is an intellectually exciting book
that stimulates the sensory palate. Dr.
Alexenberg shares in-depth, meaningful insights about encountering God in the
creative process through photography. Using
photography as the vehicle, we are guided, one idea at a time, to an
understanding of what the author means by, ’looking up, looking out, and
looking inward.’” - T. Mandel Chenoweth, Head of the Art
Education Department, Oral Roberts University, Tulsa, Oklahoma
“Mel Alexenberg transforms what sounds like blasphemy -
"capturing" God in photographs and restricting Him to two-dimensional
images - into a mystical exercise as we open our eyes to the Divinity found in
our everyday lives. The book's wonderful synthesis between spirituality and
technology, heaven and earth, is exciting and thought-provoking.” - Rabbi Chanan Morrison, author of Gold
from the Land of Israel
“One of art’s most complete and compelling integrations
of the sacred and profane. It reads like
a swift and soulful breeze. 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. I love every “byte” of it.” - Dr. Shaun McNiff, author of Earth Angels:
Engaging the Sacred in Everyday Things, University Professor, Lesley University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
“There are many parallels in Christian thought and deed
that should allow this excellent book to resonate with many people of faith.
When I picked up Prof. Alexenberg's book, I happened to be reading a spiritual
guide on contemplative prayer by an anonymous 14th century Christian mystic
whose words find a parallel in Alexenberg's exhortation to seek the Divine out
in the world in all that you see and photograph, and with love. 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,
co-author of The Art of iPhone Photography
“Thinks brilliantly outside the box. It synthesizes the realm of the abstruse and
transcendent with the realm of the concrete and immanent. It crisscrosses disciplines, from science and
technology to philosophy and mysticism to art. 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
“Photograph God strikes a balance between Kabbalah and
contemporary culture. It is literate,
wise, and easily accessible.” - Rabbi Lawrence Kushner, author of God Was in
This Place & I, i Did Not Know: Finding Self, Spirituality and Ultimate
Meaning
"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
“I can feel your
joy, warmth and good humor in your images. Your approach, while fundamentally
spiritual and fired by a kindred spark as my own passion for seeing, is a
mirror of a different sort of our mutual exploration of our humanity.” - Julie
DuBose, author of Effortless Beauty: Photography as an Expression of Eye,
Mind and Heart, Director, Miksang Institute for
Contemplative Photography, Colorado
“In his sophisticated and highly literate book, Prof.
Alexenberg weaves in a playful way the threads between contemporary digital
culture and traditional Jewish wisdom.
In an original way, he 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
new media at Tel Aviv University and the Holon Institute of Technology, Israel
“A mystical computer program for spiritual seeing.” – Rabbi
Dr. Shimon Cowen, Director, Institute for Judaism and Civilization, Australia
