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David Ulrich has investigated vision and creativity for 30 years. As a photographer and writer, his work has been published in numerous books and journals including Aperture, Parabola, MANOA, and Sierra Club publications. Ulrich’s photographs have been exhibited internationally in over seventy-five one-person and group exhibitions in museums, galleries, and universities.
He has taught hundreds of classes and workshops on photography, creativity, and visual perception in colleges, art schools, and workshop centers nationwide. His teachingincorporates key elements of the creative process, assisting individuals of all walks of life, ages, and cultural backgrounds. For fifteen years, he served as Associate Professor and Chair of the Photography Department of The Art Institute of Boston. He is a faculty member of the New York University Tisch School of the Arts Summer Program and the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa.
Ulrich is the Director of the Pacific Imaging Center and a core faculty member of Pacific New Media, digital education resources combining new technologies with the creative impulse, serving the Pacific Rim. As the former Executive Director of the Hui No‘eau Visual Arts Center in Maui, Hawai‘i, he designed programs for a broad multi-cultural audience. He earned a BFA degree from The Museum School of Fine Arts in Boston, an MFA degree from Rhode Island School of Design, and is currently listed in Who’s Who in American Art.
David Ulrich is uniquely qualified to address the themes found in The Widening Stream and Deep Perception. The genesis for the book took place over twenty-five years ago when the author assisted the renowned photographer Minor White in editing The Visualization Manual, an unpublished manuscript that details White’s teaching methods derived from over forty years of teaching photography and visual perception. Other circumstances have forcefully intervened in the author’s life as well, not the least of which was the loss of his right, dominant eye in an impact injury at the age of thirty-three. He writes: “Fearing the loss of my capacity to see and photograph, and with all hope to the contrary, this blow helped to awaken my own awareness. Losing an eye and facing the resulting need to learn to see again, this time as an adult, assisted the growth and development of my perceptual capacities—and helped me better understand the function and process of sight. Above all, I learned to not take vision for granted. It was a profound learning experience, one that continues to this day. The experience was traumatic and painful—like nothing else I have ever experienced—and a great privilege.”
Recently, Ulrich was a photographer and state-wide coordinator for the ambitious and highly successful America 24/7 project, resulting in a best-selling national book in 2003 and 50 individual state books in 2004.
In 2002, Ulrich published the first in a trilogy of three books, The Widening Stream: the Seven Stages of Creativity (Beyond Words ). The author is an experienced lecturer, teacher, and workshop leader. He is willing to promote the book through his frequent speaking engagements, classes and workshops.