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"""We are living through a very grim time,"" writes Barry Sheinkopf, ""with death lurking invisibly all around us, livelihoods shaken or destroyed, emotions running wild in all directions, governments struggling with varying degrees of integrity and success to contain the mayhem, and our very nature as social creatures held in cautious check. We're calling the microscopic organism that has attacked us Coronavirus and the disease it causes Covid-19, but it's a plague plain and simple: novel, horrifying, highly contagious, perhaps recurring. Our future has become uncertain, a mystery. That's why I have subtitled this collection Images and Words in a Time of Plague. I've been using cameras for a long time, living with the astonishment of the world around me and trying to capture, not just the facts of what I see, but that very astonishment. I offer some of those images here--like candles set adrift in a river on paper plates--wedded to insights they have called to mind that poets and writers have left us over many centuries. I offer the book in the hope that it sustains you as these images have sustained me with the faith that the joy of living will endure for us all--that, as Kafka once put it, 'They threw us out of Paradise, but Paradise was not destroyed.'"""

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"""In the midst of fear and chaos, theinstability of the world under siege bypandemic and the death it brings, politics and the division that brings, it is, as always, the artists--writers, poets, painters, photographers, musicians--who seek to capture what is, knowing that the tenuous history of what was and what still remains depends upon it. From this grim reality, Sheinkopf's images emerge like a first ray of light after a long storm, and one is transfixed by their beauty, by the moment each captures, intact and untouched.Their marriage to the words of great writers brings home the timelessness of beauty and its ability to transform the world for the better, even in our darkest times. A Healing Eye sheds amuch-needed healing light."" --Linda Principe, author of Surviving Murder: A True Crime Memoir and Tangible Remains: Selected Poems ""Barry Sheinkopf has an artist's eye, a poet's perception, a musician's dexterity, and a philosopher's perspective. It is no surprise he creates such a delicate and delicious visual feast of a book, A Healing Eye. With photographic precision, he captures the spontaneous moment drawn from a lifetime of seeing. Quotes reflecting the spectrum of our humanity adorn these gifts of color and motion."" --Steven Swank, author of The Horse Knows and Unfold ""With A Healing Eye, Barry Sheinkopf has been able to deftly combine his striking images with a broad knowledge of literature; each of the photos gathered here is complemented by a brief quotation chosen both to enhance our appreciation of the visual and to provide a written counterpoint, asking us to look more closely and more carefully at what we are seeing. Drawn exclusively from nature, these images remind us, as we shelter in place in the unprecedented isolation of the coronavirus pandemic, that there is still beauty in the world, even in these uncertain and often frightening times. Sheinkopf's eye is indeed a healing eye, and the quiet reassurance this beautiful little book offers us is more essential now than ever."" --Robert Lavett Smith, author of Smoke in Cold Weather and Collected Early Poems"

In the midst of fear and chaos, theinstability of the world under siege bypandemic and the death it brings, politics and the division that brings, it is, as always, the artists--writers, poets, painters, photographers, musicians--who seek to capture what is, knowing that the tenuous history of what was and what still remains depends upon it. From this grim reality, Sheinkopf's images emerge like a first ray of light after a long storm, and one is transfixed by their beauty, by the moment each captures, intact and untouched.Their marriage to the words of great writers brings home the timelessness of beauty and its ability to transform the world for the better, even in our darkest times. A Healing Eye sheds amuch-needed healing light. --Linda Principe, author of Surviving Murder: A True Crime Memoir and Tangible Remains: Selected Poems Barry Sheinkopf has an artist's eye, a poet's perception, a musician's dexterity, and a philosopher's perspective. It is no surprise he creates such a delicate and delicious visual feast of a book, A Healing Eye. With photographic precision, he captures the spontaneous moment drawn from a lifetime of seeing. Quotes reflecting the spectrum of our humanity adorn these gifts of color and motion. --Steven Swank, author of The Horse Knows and Unfold With A Healing Eye, Barry Sheinkopf has been able to deftly combine his striking images with a broad knowledge of literature; each of the photos gathered here is complemented by a brief quotation chosen both to enhance our appreciation of the visual and to provide a written counterpoint, asking us to look more closely and more carefully at what we are seeing. Drawn exclusively from nature, these images remind us, as we shelter in place in the unprecedented isolation of the coronavirus pandemic, that there is still beauty in the world, even in these uncertain and often frightening times. Sheinkopf's eye is indeed a healing eye, and the quiet reassurance this beautiful little book offers us is more essential now than ever. --Robert Lavett Smith, author of Smoke in Cold Weather and Collected Early Poems

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