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In Seeing Differently: Miami Color Theory, graphic designer, photographer, and artist Laura Paresky Gould depicts the vibrant beauty of Miami while teaching engaging lessons about seeing and art. Photography can be meditation with your eyes open. This multi-hued catalogue of shapes, shadows, and architectural gems of Miami showcases 170 images, includes insightful quotes from famous photographers, and a foreword by Silvia Cubina, executive director of The Bass, Miami Beach's contemporary art museum. Seeing Differently is inspired by the three-part video series on digital photography Paresky Gould created for The Bass, and a compilation of her sophisticated smartphone images posted on her Instagram account, @miamicolortheory, where she explores the art of Minimal Photography, the Seven Elements of Art, Five Composition Techniques, and The Practice of Seeing. @miamicolortheory was awarded 'Best Instagram' by the Miami New Times. Paresky Gould's @miamicolortheory photos were featured on Apple's Instagram on two separate occasions.

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"""No one has shot the city more intimately than artist, photographer, and graphic designer Laura Paresky Gould... She captures the colorful shapes and shadows of the city's unique architecture and composes them as if they were works of modern, abstract art.""-- ""Miami New Times"" In Seeing Differently, Laura gives us a roadmap for how to use our eyes as a means of becoming more present, to better appreciate even the most quotidian surroundings. She instills both the methods and confidence to capture striking imagery. But whether or not you apply her teachings to photography, you will learn how noticing is a form of mindfulness.-- ""Laura Rubin, creative coach and journaling expert"" Laura Paresky Gould explores the beauty of the Magic City's architecture, colors and shapes through incredible iPhone shots. Highlighting the locale's myriad of Art Deco geometries, even light and vivid hues, Gould celebrates the visual joy of South Florida.-- ""Cultured Magazine"" Sometimes, at first glance, it does not even seem to be a photograph...she manages to look at the real world and make it look like a drawing that just came out of her work table.-- ""FrizziFrizzi Magazine"" Laura Paresky Gould actively looks at what is not immediately visible to many of us: shapes, lines, curves, and, most importantly, color. She uses this consciousness to show people how to see joy in the everyday world.-- ""Silvia Karman Cubiñá, executive director, The Bass"

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LAURA PARESKY GOULD is a graphic designer, animator, photographer and fine artist. Since January 2021 she has been photographing Miami in bright, saturated colors found in architecture and inanimate objects, using just an iPhone. She posts these images daily on her Instagram @miamicolortheory, which has garnered attention worldwide - from Apple to Cultured to Frizzi-Frizzi magazine - and was named ""Best Instagram"" in the Best of Miami 2022 issue by Miami New Times. Prior to @miamicolortheory, Gould designed internationally award-winning motion graphics for Nike, E! Entertainment Television, CBS, and NBC earning her numerous accolades including Gold Broadcast Designer Awards, a Telly Award, a New York Festival Award, Type Director's Club Awards, and an Art Director's Club Award. She also designed logo identities for numerous corporations across the country. Her fine artwork appears in museums as well as public and private collections worldwide, and she held three solo exhibits during Art Basel Miami Beach. Her photographs have appeared in numerous national publications, including The New York Times, USA Today, The Miami Herald, Elle, Esquire, Vogue, Elle-Décor, GQ, Architecture, Interiors, Miami Home & Décor, Ocean Drive, How, New York Magazine, Upper and Lower Case, Communication Arts Photography Annual, and on the covers of The Pink Palm and Palm Beach Illustrated. Gould was the Design Director for Ocean Drive magazine, taught typography at Miami Ad School, created a personalized product e-commerce company, and co-founded Twain Creative, a boutique identity design firm. She was also the recipient of the Design Center of the Americas (DCOTA)'s Stars of Design Award for Graphic Design. She graduated from Duke University and received a master's degree from the Rhode Island School of Design. SEEING DIFFERENTLY is her first book.

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