Saturday, November 23, 2019
Like Wind I Go
With the release of Like Wind I Go, author and photographer William Bernard Brooks issues a tantalizing invitation to the reader to enter his private world and experience life through the lens of his camera and the prism of his sharply-honed intellect. The photographic images Brooks has selected for the book are seemingly straightforward and somewhat austere. Closer examination, however, reveals layers of insightful detail. Brooks has feigned and tricked us into looking beyond the face value of the images to discover their secrets, their true soul. Likewise, his accompanying text, underpinned by keenly evolved philosophical and spiritual leanings, provoke introspection and a deeper analysis. A cosmopolitan European who has developed a fondness for Native American culture and spiritualism since relocating to the mountains of northwest Montana, Brooks stands today as a fully evolved artist and intellectual. Like Wind I Go will both charm and challenge the reader. It stands as a testimony to the passions of someone who knows what questions to ask and where to find the answers.
Mark Holston, critic, LATINO Magazine, a national public policy and culture publication.
Friday, October 8, 2010
Where to order SOUL CALLER
When the "Other" remains unseen and misunderstood, we easily fall into a programmed reaction of fight or flight.
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"Writing with light" is taking on a new meaning for people who are now willing and able to engrave a different world with their spirit.
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Sunday, July 11, 2010
Reviews on Soulcaller
Reality is the interface, July 5, 2010
By Jan Amkreutz (Corona, CA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Soul caller (Paperback)
If you believe that reality is all there is, buy this treasure anyway; then, play the movie of images in it, and discover a hundred new creatures in the universe of your own mind. If you already believe that reality is what you make of it, drown yourself in the intriguing realities of this book, and discover a thousand narratives emerging from the depth of your mind. If, however, you have already learned that that human spirit lies beyond reality, that reality is just the interface, absorb the images in this palete of colors and words, and discover the fullness of you own spirit, expanding it by doing so. Either way, do your soul a favor - read soulcaller.
Jan Amkreutz, author Digital Spirit: Minding the future
Revealing, simplistic, visually stunning, some have living quality, fluid, mesmeric, June 29, 2010
By Wasabi - See all my reviews
This review is from: Soul caller (Paperback)
Soul Caller fuses native american wisdoms and simple quiet feelings of one’s inner self with almost impressionistic images. The book has a peaceful overtone that leads you from one image to the next as if you were wandering down a path that was both wondrous yet familiar.
" We know that the body is a world of imagination, and that is the essence of its soul. We might do more for its health by looking seriously at the artworks that reveal some of the body's expressiveness than by taking vitamins and doing exercises. An unimagined body is on its way toward disease. - From "Care of the Soul" by Thomas Moore
By Jan Amkreutz (Corona, CA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Soul caller (Paperback)
If you believe that reality is all there is, buy this treasure anyway; then, play the movie of images in it, and discover a hundred new creatures in the universe of your own mind. If you already believe that reality is what you make of it, drown yourself in the intriguing realities of this book, and discover a thousand narratives emerging from the depth of your mind. If, however, you have already learned that that human spirit lies beyond reality, that reality is just the interface, absorb the images in this palete of colors and words, and discover the fullness of you own spirit, expanding it by doing so. Either way, do your soul a favor - read soulcaller.
Jan Amkreutz, author Digital Spirit: Minding the future
Revealing, simplistic, visually stunning, some have living quality, fluid, mesmeric, June 29, 2010
By Wasabi - See all my reviews
This review is from: Soul caller (Paperback)
Soul Caller fuses native american wisdoms and simple quiet feelings of one’s inner self with almost impressionistic images. The book has a peaceful overtone that leads you from one image to the next as if you were wandering down a path that was both wondrous yet familiar.
" We know that the body is a world of imagination, and that is the essence of its soul. We might do more for its health by looking seriously at the artworks that reveal some of the body's expressiveness than by taking vitamins and doing exercises. An unimagined body is on its way toward disease. - From "Care of the Soul" by Thomas Moore
Friday, May 28, 2010
review from germany
In einer total vermarkteten Welt, wo alles nach uns ruft, ist es nicht leicht, den Ruf der Seele zu vernehmen. Soulcaller von William B. Brooks baut uns goldene Brücken zwischen Oberfläche und Tiefe. Die Technik, der sich der renommierte Fotograf dabei bedient, ist so einfach wie genial. Ihm gelingt es auf wunderbare Weise, Natur und Kunst, Wirklichkeit und Möglichkeit verschmelzen zu lassen, indem er Objekte transparent werden lässt, das heißt, die Seele der Dinge durchscheinen lässt.
Für mich sind seine Kunstwerke magische Kraftbilder, die mich unmittelbar in Berührung bringen mit dem, "was die Welt im Innersten zusammen hält", wie Goethe es einmal formuliert hat. Sie spiegeln auf subtile Weise die Einheit von allem und belohnen den aufmerksamen Betrachter mit einer spontanen Verbindung zu seinem inneren Selbst, das nichts anderes ist, als die Weltseele selbst. Ich kann nur jedem empfehlen: Lasst Euch auf die Bilder ein und fühlt, was sie mit Euch machen, nach dem Motto "who feels it knows it". Auch wenn es hierzu eigentlich keiner Worte bedarf, so sind die kurzen meditativen Texte doch eine gelungene zusätzliche Bereicherung.
In a world consumed by consumerism where everything yells at us, it is not easy to perceive the call of the soul. “ Soulcaller” by William B. Brooks builds a golden bridge between surface and depth. The technique used by the renowned photographer is as simple as it is genial. He achieves, in a miraculous way, to merge nature and art, reality and possibility by permitting objects to become transparent that means the soul of the thing becomes visible.
For me, his art works are magical power images, which connect me in an immediate way to what Goethe once called “ that ,which holds the essence of the world together”. They mirror in a subtle way the oneness of all and reward the thoughtful observer with a spontaneous connection to his inner Self, which is nothing else but the “World Soul” itself. I can only recommend to accept these pictures and feel what they will do to you, after the motto. “Who feels it knows it”.
Even so, no words are necessary; the short meditative text delivers a successful enrichment to the reader.
Für mich sind seine Kunstwerke magische Kraftbilder, die mich unmittelbar in Berührung bringen mit dem, "was die Welt im Innersten zusammen hält", wie Goethe es einmal formuliert hat. Sie spiegeln auf subtile Weise die Einheit von allem und belohnen den aufmerksamen Betrachter mit einer spontanen Verbindung zu seinem inneren Selbst, das nichts anderes ist, als die Weltseele selbst. Ich kann nur jedem empfehlen: Lasst Euch auf die Bilder ein und fühlt, was sie mit Euch machen, nach dem Motto "who feels it knows it". Auch wenn es hierzu eigentlich keiner Worte bedarf, so sind die kurzen meditativen Texte doch eine gelungene zusätzliche Bereicherung.
In a world consumed by consumerism where everything yells at us, it is not easy to perceive the call of the soul. “ Soulcaller” by William B. Brooks builds a golden bridge between surface and depth. The technique used by the renowned photographer is as simple as it is genial. He achieves, in a miraculous way, to merge nature and art, reality and possibility by permitting objects to become transparent that means the soul of the thing becomes visible.
For me, his art works are magical power images, which connect me in an immediate way to what Goethe once called “ that ,which holds the essence of the world together”. They mirror in a subtle way the oneness of all and reward the thoughtful observer with a spontaneous connection to his inner Self, which is nothing else but the “World Soul” itself. I can only recommend to accept these pictures and feel what they will do to you, after the motto. “Who feels it knows it”.
Even so, no words are necessary; the short meditative text delivers a successful enrichment to the reader.
review from montana
Soul Caller
A review by Eugene D Tunick, DDS 5/2/2010
As I know William Bernard Brooks to be a prominent portrait photographer, I expected Soul Caller to be a book of beautiful photographs. What I found was a complete surprise: a series of images, probably based on photographs, resembling paintings reminiscent of Matisse and other French impressionists, with a suggestion of abstractionism.
They definitely aren’t French, but are anchored in Native American occultism – serving as metaphors of early Indians seeking the meaning of existence.
Each image is accompanied by a Haiku describing a spiritual experience. I couldn’t resist going back repeatedly to explore the imagery and to let the Haikus insinuate themselves into my consciousness.
Brooks invites us to share his existential journey.
A review by Eugene D Tunick, DDS 5/2/2010
As I know William Bernard Brooks to be a prominent portrait photographer, I expected Soul Caller to be a book of beautiful photographs. What I found was a complete surprise: a series of images, probably based on photographs, resembling paintings reminiscent of Matisse and other French impressionists, with a suggestion of abstractionism.
They definitely aren’t French, but are anchored in Native American occultism – serving as metaphors of early Indians seeking the meaning of existence.
Each image is accompanied by a Haiku describing a spiritual experience. I couldn’t resist going back repeatedly to explore the imagery and to let the Haikus insinuate themselves into my consciousness.
Brooks invites us to share his existential journey.
review from montana
Soul Caller
A review by Eugene D Tunick, DDS 5/2/2010
As I know William Bernard Brooks to be a prominent portrait photographer, I expected Soul Caller to be a book of beautiful photographs. What I found was a complete surprise: a series of images, probably based on photographs, resembling paintings reminiscent of Matisse and other French impressionists, with a suggestion of abstractionism.
They definitely aren’t French, but are anchored in Native American occultism – serving as metaphors of early Indians seeking the meaning of existence.
Each image is accompanied by a Haiku describing a spiritual experience. I couldn’t resist going back repeatedly to explore the imagery and to let the Haikus insinuate themselves into my consciousness.
Brooks invites us to share his existential journey.
A review by Eugene D Tunick, DDS 5/2/2010
As I know William Bernard Brooks to be a prominent portrait photographer, I expected Soul Caller to be a book of beautiful photographs. What I found was a complete surprise: a series of images, probably based on photographs, resembling paintings reminiscent of Matisse and other French impressionists, with a suggestion of abstractionism.
They definitely aren’t French, but are anchored in Native American occultism – serving as metaphors of early Indians seeking the meaning of existence.
Each image is accompanied by a Haiku describing a spiritual experience. I couldn’t resist going back repeatedly to explore the imagery and to let the Haikus insinuate themselves into my consciousness.
Brooks invites us to share his existential journey.
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